Word: hottentot
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...Miller telephoned Peggy King at her Hollywood home. "This," he began, "is Mitch Miller." "And this," the unbelieving singer answered, "is Snow White. And all the dwarfs are here, too." Identities were finally established, and Peggy King signed with Miller. Last week Columbia issued as her first effort The Hottentot, a tongue twister silly and bouncy enough to become a hit. Sample
...foam-flecked northern fishing villages, places with exotic names like Zanzibar, edible-sounding names like the Cameroons or Tortola, improbable names like Gozo or Piddlehinton, famous ones like St. Helena or Piccadilly. No man among them can fluently speak the tongues of all-Urdu and Sanskrit, Dutch and French, Hottentot, Greek, Turkish, Cockney, Twi, Gaelic...
...higher, or the difference between a C and a B. Some will undoubtedly say that this procedure is highly immoral. On the other hand, since everyone knows examinations are supposed to be graded in an entirely impartial manner, the phrase "gradating senior" should have no more effect that writing "hottentot" or "noblesse oblige." A fimsy defense, indeed but a defense...
...Washington no one seemed to know exactly what the President had in mind. How much would it cost? Who would foot the bill? Maybe it wasn't another offer of a bottle of milk to every Hottentot, but it sounded as if the U.S. proposed to tell the Hottentots how to run a dairy...
...Paul F. Douglass, the University's president: "If all the money spent on this war since 1934 was distributed equally to all the people of the world, every man, woman and child (over two billion people in the world) would receive more than $500." At this rate, every Hottentot could have had 3,000 quarts of grade A milk...