Word: erful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Punch Editor Sir Alan (A. P.) Herbert wanted to know how Follick's phonetics would cope with the word water. "I think," said Herbert, "the Hon. Member for Loughborough proposes to spell it 'uoorter.' Some cockneys leave out the T and call it 'wa'er.' Americans say 'watter,' but how do the Scotsmen say it?" Glasgow's John Rankin volunteered: "We pronounce it whuskey...
...liveried flunky discreetly roused dapper, white-haired Ramón Serrano Suñer from his siesta. "Two gentlemen to see you, sir, on a most urgent matter...
...next 24 hours, all Madrid, titillated by the looming duel of honor, hunted up copies of Press Mission in Spain. Though banned, it could be bought in the black market at 500 pesetas ($20) a copy. The price was steep but rewarding. Serrano Suñer had passed on to the book's author, Journalist Armando Chavez Camacho of Mexico City, a choice comment by Adolf Hitler on Sancho Davila, a burly Falangist bullyboy who had once killed two party rivals in a political brawl, and had long been feuding with Serrano Suñer. Sneered...
They sang with untrained voices, and as if they loved the music. An eleven-year-old named Sally Sheppard sang a solo in a sweet alto, ". . . in a stable, 'mid lowing of kine, Mary kept watch o'er the infant divine . . ." As she sang, cattle could be heard lowing in a red barn just behind the church. Some of the audience sat with clenched hands; a few farmers' wives dabbed at their eyes when Jane Carpenter, 16, and Leanna Livingston, 17, sang a duet: "Come, thou long-expected Jesus...
...Army. The book has illustrations-photographs of 281 men. Most of the faces are young, most of them look as familiar as the boy up the street. Their names read like the telephone directory in any U.S. town-Adams, Anderson . . . Hall-,man, Hamilton . . . Kisters, Knappen-berger . . . Soderman, Specker . . . Zeam-er, Zussman. Photographs of eleven were "not available." Few of these men are famous; all of them are heroes. The 292 men memorialized in the book are the Army's Medal of Honor winners in World War II.-Only 135 of them lived to receive their awards...