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...HATCHETMAN: A literal derivation from the military vocabulary of coIonial America, when a hatchetman, or axman. chopped foliage in advance of troops operating in woods or swamp. On the political ladder, a henchman (etymologically, the Anglo-Saxon hengest-man, or horse groom) is one rung above a hanger-on but one rung below a hatchetman...
...Danish flags and ice-cream cones. The crowd was so anxious to see the warriors (in private life Danish dockers, policemen, tradesmen and bricklayers) that they crashed the press seats and part of the official committee's platform. Toasts were drunk in mead, a drink brewed from honey. Hengest & Horsa used to love mead, but 1949's perspiring Vikings gave the impression that they would rather have had some cool beer. The Danes plan to sell the Hugin (it cost $12,000) and go back to Denmark on the oarless Danish patrol vessel Thetis.* They have already arranged...
...undergraduates and graduates. The undergraduates may compete for two prizes of fifty dollars each. One of the these is offered for a translation into Attic Greek of the passage in Green's Short History of the English People, chapter 1, section II., beginning "It is with the landing of Hengest," and ending with "Gildas tells us nothing of their fortunes or of the their leaders...
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