Word: hooligan
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Last week in Moscow, Communist Mother Russia trod briskly down the trail blazed by Herr Goebbels. The Soviet Academy of Sciences decided to thoroughly Russianize the Russian language, which is liberally endowed with words borrowed from French, German and English (samples: khuligan-hooligan, trolleibus-trolley bus, stend-stand. "In most cases," said Academician A. M. Terpigorev, "these foreign words can be substituted by Rus sian words ... A scientific terminology cluttered with foreign words is intolerable." While the Russian language was going nationalist, it was also going imperialist...
Gentleman v. Hooligan. Among the few sitters to complain of Epstein's handling was Bernard Shaw, whom he has modeled six times. "Here I am a respected Irish gentleman," said Shaw, "and you make me look like a Brooklyn hooligan like yourself." Actually, Epstein was born and raised on Manhattan's Lower East Side, just across the river from Brooklyn. At 22 he made his way to Paris, settled in London three years later. Now a paunchy, patriarchal 69, he lives in an ivied house diagonally opposite Churchill's in Hyde Park Gate...
...travels, he ran across an old shipmate who had become a commissioned officer in the Coast Guard. He told Arthur: "Any Navy petty officer can make a commission in this hooligan Navy." Godfrey joined...
...Boss." Minneapolis was a wide-open town. At least 50 brothels were running full blast, afterhours, liquor joints flourished, local mobsters were riding high. Almost every corner cigar store had its betting books, its hooligan and "14" games (dice) or "66"(punchboards...
Legionnaires were subdued. Suddenly and forcibly, they had been made to realize that their hooligan antics had ceased to amuse. The clincher was the problem of next year's convention. Wailed a committeeman: "For the first time in our history, we have no bid from any city." Nobody seemed to want the American Legion...