Word: eek
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suite on the second floor of Washington's Mayflower Hotel constitutes the legation of the Kingdom of Albania. The drawing room is dominated by a talking-machine with a Gargantuan, oldfashioned, master's-voice horn. Presiding there since 1926 has been cultured, convivial Faik (pronounced "fah-eek") Konitza, a sixtyish bachelor who reads 13 languages, has an earned M. A. from Harvard University and numbers among his friends beauteous Ann Corio, famed Italianate strip-teaseuse...
...Eskimos at Kepnuk, Alaska, found Dr. Rosebury, eat little besides fish and seal meat which are soft and rich in fats and proteins. They have no tooth decay. The Eskimos at Eek vary their fish and seal diet with hardtack. Many of them have decayed teeth. Dr. Rosebury became convinced that in hardtack he had found a food analogous to the coarse corn and rice. On his return to Columbia, he and his collaborators, Maxwell Karshan and Genevieve Foley, set to work feeding hardtack to more than a hundred rats, soon produced decayed teeth in many of them...
...Yale speakers were Eek Lund, D. V. McNamee, and R. V. Tennant...
...would like to take this opportunity of expressing my admiration for the man who wrote "Army's First W'eek" under Aeronautics in the March 5 issue. . . . No coloring of the facts, no superlatives, no emotionalism but by the simple, unexpected arrangement of the facts, he drives home a moral with unusual force. He doesn't set forth an argument or a conclusion but the absurdity of the whole airmail situation hits you between the eyes and you get a thrill down your spine...
...Names make news." Last -eek these names made this news...