Word: forking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maturer years were not without event. On one occasion, impressed with the success of Cecil Sharp and others in collecting folk songs and music in the fastnesses of Kentucky, the Carolinas and Tennessee, he set out in a buggy, equipped with music paper, a tuning fork and a phonographic recording machine, to collect the folk songs of his home State. Iowa. After a long ride he reached a farm where the daughter of the house consented to sing. He sat with the girl's mother on the piazza, waiting. The silence grew expectant. At last Aggie began to sing...
...Fork-Wise Prince...
...Your information "spells" French-like. The Prince's name is "Asfa Wassan" in English. He is 16, speaks English (likely better than any English prince speaks Amharic). American quite fluently, French better, interested in many things other than bicycles, and is quite familiar with the use of knife & fork. ERNEST WORK...
...length. The chief gist of the Apes' preoccupations is revealed in the opening scene, where, outside Lady Fredigonde Follett's London mansion, "the policeman could be observed at his usual occupation known as Oh-dear-Mabel!, which consists in a repeated readjustment of the stiff melton trouser-fork, by a simultaneous flexion of both legs.'' What "Oh-dear-Mabel!" is for the policeman, the Artistic Life is for the Apes...
...intellectually striving debutantes whose only recollection of "Past and Present" is that it might have been a Vincent Club show of ten years ago. There is something rather dashing and knowing in the statement, "Oh Carlyle-a chronic dyspeptic," particularly if said with a sweep of the salad fork...