Word: hench
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trade each other all sorts of useless knowledge. From Harold W. Bentley, managing editor of American Speech, they got a report on names of U. S. towns and cities. Samples: Social Circle, Wide Mouth, Jingo, Sleepy Eye, Matrimony, Hot Coffee. University of Virginia's Professor Atcheson L. Hench delivered a scholarly discourse on the history of the term "stark-naked" (from start-naked, literally: buttocks-naked). Most superbly useless piece of information given to the convention was a paper on The Pronunciation of German Surnames in Potosi, Wisconsin...
...pocket wildcat is 98 Ib. Miss "Wee Ellen" Wilkinson M. P.?not James Ramsay MacDonald's most potent hench-woman but without doubt the most intense person in the whole British Labor Party.? Last week Miss Wilkinson, just landed in Manhattan, set out to spend her British Parliamentary recess on a whirlwind U. S. lecture tour. First object of her wrath: apple selling...