Word: highnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public schools. At Winchester they will find that Wykehamisms (samples: "mugging" for working, "remedy" for holiday, "dead brum" for broke) are as much a part of the school as its rich educational diet. So are the class barriers between the 70 "scholars" (admitted to Winchester by virtue of high scholastic ability), the 16 "quiristers," who for centuries have received a free education for singing in the choir (until their voices change), and the 400-odd "commoners," whose families pay the full fee to make the lads both scholars and gentlemen...
...general term describing anyone from a creep to a showoff. In Chicago, last year's "D.D.T." (drop dead twice) is still fashionable; the dangling "but," sounded with rising inflection on the end of any declaration or question, is new there. Example: "Where you goin', but?" In Detroit, high school girls now talk of the "goofs we go with"; in San Francisco a nice guy is a "good head...
Buckles & Boots. Teen-age styles are also changing. Everywhere, the girls seem to be wearing hip-hugging skirts, shorter and far tighter than last year. Sloppy sweaters are on the way out, tighter ones topped with ropes of imitation pearls on the way in. Said one San Francisco high-school girl: "The word this year is meticulous...
...Detroit, the boys have adopted a high-laced boot cut on heavy ski-boot lines, which makes an impressive clatter in high-school corridors. For girls, the ballerina slipper is fashionable for anything from study hall to football games. In either sex, of course, only a "squeegie" would wear...
...horn) to their mouths and blew long, wailing blasts. Thus, Jews were called upon to take stock of their souls. It was the beginning of the two-day period of Rosh Hashana, the sacred celebration of the New Year 5710,* and the start of the ten High Holy Days which end Oct. 3 in Yom Kippur...