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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House of Lords learned, last week, from Baron Gorell how to "gazoomph a sarker," "noise the edge," and "sling a gee." This information was imparted by the Noble Lord, after he had spent a month in English provincial towns, spying and eavesdropping upon the uncouth persons who hold bogus auctions...
Having scattered these pearls of English vernacular before their Lordships, Baron Gorell announced that he is drafting a bill "to prohibit mock or bogus auctions" As an afterthought he added that "deuce phunt" means...
Unfortunately the adjective is actually two adjectives, one in the English text of the Treaty of Trianon, and the other in the supposedly identical French text. The adjective is "royal," and it is also "regnant," which most scholars would translate "ruling," not "royal...
...Hindu. To have interfered would have been suicide. Private Hopkins stood as quiet as a lamp post. Before his eyes the Hindu was caught, pinioned, kicked, slashed horribly, and finally disemboweled. This fiendish atrocity was too much for a Soldier of the King to bear. Private Hopkins, according to English correspondents, fainted...
...Olaf College in Minnesota a Norwegian immigrant, professor of literature, writes many a novel, ships them to "the old country" for publication. Last year however he helped translate one of them into English, called it Giants in the Earth, and was promptly acclaimed an important U. S. novelist...