Word: fouls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Endeavour had not flown her red protest flag until a few miles from the finish line. New York Yacht Club racing rules call for a protest flag to be displayed "promptly." On the complicated ground that, by not flying a protest flag immediately after the first foul, Endeavour had deprived Rainbow of a chance to enter a counterprotest, thereby preventing the Committee from disqualifying Endeavour in case it found Rainbow rather than Endeavour to be the injured party, the Race Committee refused to entertain the Sopwith protest. Mr. Sopwith kept silent until after...
Perfectly good Japanese today are such words as "club" (see p. 51), "kodak," "beefsteak" (pronounced bifteki) and the whole argot of baseball from "foul" to "home run." Compared to Chinese, Japanese are atrocious linguists but keep patiently plugging. Often one will sit down beside a foreigner with the bland request: "Can I talk to you so I can improve my English...
...thin dyspeptic Londoner. One evening he and his wife attended a neighborhood cinema. As he took his seat, his foul breath caused others to jerk their heads away. He pretended not to notice, put a cigaret between his lips. Just as he brought the lighted match, carefully cupped in his hands, up to the cigaret, he emitted a mighty belch. There was a sudden flash of flame, a rumbling "poom," a smell of singed hair. The cigaret was projected by the explosion over three rows of seats. "In pain and confusion," declared the Lancet, British medical weekly, in reporting...
...DEFY THE FOUL FIEND-John Collier-Knopf...
...Shakespeare (''Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend"&151; King Lear), Author John Collier has written a robust and racy novel of which Henry Fielding would have been proud. Readers of Defy the Foul Fiend may look forward to continuous entertainment of a high order, will close the book with the feeling that they have added a first-rate volume to their library of 20th Century English letters. No literary left-winger but a traditionalist, Author Collier adds his bit to the quietly...