Word: dum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...refused to make a speech the Rotarian next to her feared the girl was moody: "That comes from being too subjunctive and makes the situation tense." Alice thereupon recited a poem for them. Suddenly her entire audience scuttled and scampered off to escape the American Mercurial twins, Twaddle-dum and Twiddle-dee, now that you mencken it, one with H. L. M. embroidered on his collar, and the other, G. J. N. They conversed solemnly with Alice, and tried to entertain her. But Alice declared herself bored, and immediately the two little men vanished, leaving her to walk the Primrose...
...Assistant Edward Newbury '27 Another Assistant A. M. Shattuck '28 Train Porter G. S. Curtis '28 Jake of the Wrecking Crew E. A. Morrison '28 Bud of Same W. B. Dunne '27 Man with Lantern K. A. Perry '28 Ornery-Faced Policeman G. H. Humphrey '25 Young Dum H. S. Smith '25 A Sailor Edward Newbury '27 Another Sailor A. M. Shattuck '28 Opera Goer E. J. Bliss '26 Second Opera Goer Harriet Huntress Third Opera Goer Miss Isaacs Second Young Man with Same G. B. Bingham '28 Third Young Men with Same H. M. Fox '28 A Girl Marie...
WATLING'S - Horace Annesley Vachell-Stokes ($2.00). Mr. Vachell says he owes the idea of this book to a friend, one "Dum-Dum." In making his suggestion, "DumDum" may well have said: "Believe it or not, you, with your swift Sat.-Eve.-Post style, your clean humor, your knack with characters, could write a good tale about the department-store business. Draw a composite hero-a Marshall Wannamacy. Have him crash his way up from running errands for a scrimping haberdasher to running the business of his own sterling Emporium. Make Wannamacy-or William Watling- quaint as well...
...present bizarre, not to say impossible, form, it provides only "nonsense syllables" for the singers. Thus the basses open by chanting "easygoingly but richly," in the following language: "Ta da di da ra da da." The tenors enter with "Dum pum pum pum ti di diri diri"; then the ladies: "Tara dira dara diri didi...
Kala-azar, or Dum-Dum fever, a mysterious disease somewhat similar to malaria, frequently fatal and extremely disabling, is so prevalent in Eastern India, particularly Assam, Bengal and Madras, that its transmission constitutes "probably the most important unsolved problem of tropical medicine," according to Dr. L. E. Napier and his colleagues, who have been doing research work on Kala-azar for several years...