Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...haircut and organized charity is a vast, competitive business. To a million or more natives of Melanesia in the South Pacific, a piano is a big-fellow-bockiss-you-fight- him-teeth-belong-im-now-bockiss-he-cry. A Melanesian haircut is cut-im-grass-belong-head-belong-me. The only way most Melanesians can communicate with each other or with white men is by a bastard mixture of French, German, English, tribal dialects and baby-talk called pidgin. But when trouble strikes in Melanesia, pidgin is all that's necessary. "Sing-out-Sorri" goes the cry from village...
...British housewife, harassed by years of austerity, it was all of a piece. London's Time & Tide reported the case of one shopper who got her butcher's attention at long last and said prettily: "Two nice whale steaks, and please, could I have the head...
Shopper's Guide. For the bright 1948 market the trade had turned up scads of new toys and, better yet, was peddling them at low prices. (Toymakers have doubled production in cheap lines.) There are such ingenious gadgets as: 1 "Juggle-head" ($1.98), a magnetic head which can be given different faces by sticking on various types of noses, hair, ears, etc.; 2) a mechanical monkey ($1.98) that harvests coconuts from a palm tree; 3) a toy "electric" shaver...
Jean Kerning '50 will succeed her as head of Radcliffe's newest organization. No other officers have yet been elected...
Texas is another fascinating instance of a South that is "solid" like a hole in the head. In the Democratic primaries, Lyndon Johnson squeaked by former Governor Coke Stevenson. Stevenson promptly yelled "fraud," but his efforts to have Johnson's name lopped off the ballot were foiled by the U.S. Supreme Court. The former Governor then switched his support to the Republican, Porter, and he has undoubtedly taken a passel of old-line Democrats across the tracks with him. This "treachery," plus Democratic uneasiness over the President's civil rights program and the attractions of a straight Republican ticket, makes...