Word: hollander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...happen to have been born in Holland, as were my forebears for some 300 years and "Kijkuit" means "Lookout" if you use it as a noun. The sharp warning: "Look out!" in Dutch would be: "Kijk uit!" At Dutch railroad crossings we see the signs "Uitkujken!" "Kijk" is the Dutch for look. "Kijkers" is also the Dutch pet name for eyes, so that, if we tell a pretty girl that she has beautiful eyes, the Dutch would call them: "Mooie kijkers." To make the word seem still more useful, the Dutch also have kijkcr mean opera-glass or telescope...
Divorced. Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers of Manhattan, oil tycoon; by Mrs. Mary Benjamin Rogers; in Utrecht, Holland; grounds, "infidelity...
...Wright Jr. of Canada, son of the University of Pennsylvania's oldtime rowing coach (who was there to watch him row), lost by three feet the Diamond Sculls, which he won last year, to Holland's L. H. F. Gunther...
Along the borders of the Occupied Territory from Strasbourg in the south to the borders of Holland, watch fires were lighted as a protest against "German war guilt...
Bostonians Abroad. From Boston came news that, during May and June 1930. on official invitation, Conductor Serge Koussevitzky and his Boston Symphony Orchestra will tour Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Holland. Czechoslovakia, Austria and Switzerland...