Word: dis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editor & Publisher polled the press, found that most editors intended to print the pictures on the basis that if they were not news, they were certainly history. The Atlanta Journal played it both ways. It did not publish the pictures, but told its readers: "However, the prints will be dis played . . . in a show window ... for the inspection of anyone interested...
Foreign officers visit the Americana rarely, and then usually "to find out what you people are up to." Said a French liaison officer: "Why make this such a dis play? We fraternize too, but we would never do it so openly...
...Moscow-schooled sons; she was killed in the civil war of the '20s. No. 3 was a militant propagandist, frail Ho Tzu-ch'un; she is reported to have borne Mao five sons, all left for safety with peasant women during the civil war, and all since dis appeared. In 1938 Mao and Ho separated, later were divorced ; for consolation, ex-Wife Ho went to Moscow...
Boos for Brass. In Manila, where G.I.s started sporadic demonstrations several weeks ago, the noise was loudest. Dis integration of the soldierly virtues had shown in drunkenness, reckless driving, carelessness in dress. Then demonstrations became organized...
...Holmes's "Our nation stands dis graced before the world" reminds me of "the nine tailors of Tooley Street." He covers too much territory, and his own language is too atomic. A few more nouns like atrocity, outrage, perpetrator, crime, and adjectives such as hideous, disgraced, monstrous dropped from Dr. Holmes's lingual superbomber, would make us all want to crawl into holes and pull the hole in after us.... It is just as well, perhaps, that only God was present, with no help from ministers and theorists, when Adam and Eve in Eden started out to propagate...