Word: jabberwockative
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jabberwock he is hunting, a college fraternity, last seen some years ago at Williams College, left a stain upon this editor's blotter which must be purged by vitriol . . . Hurling three columns of ketchup at the group which inferiorated him . . he retires from the field, having given space long filled by eminent philosophers and editors to a personal and trivial hurling of tomatoes in the essence...
When I was a schoolgirl in Boston, over 50 years ago, we wanted to use the name "Jabberwock" for a new school paper. We wrote to the Reverend Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) to ask his permission. He replied that we might use the name, then said that "wock" was an old Anglo-Saxon word meaning "the result of," and we all knew the meaning of "jabber," therefore the paper would be the result of much excited discussion. He also said he would like to subscribe...
...most enjoyable visits. Done up in style, this year's circus has wonderfully gaudy costumes, good-looking girls, emerald-green tanbark, a special and sumptuous Alice in Wonderland pageant. To Deems Taylor music (some of it from his well-known Through the Looking Glass suite) the Jabberwock, the Oysters, the Walrus, a bright-colored set of Chessmen, a decidedly Mad Hatter, a head-slicing Queen of Hearts swagger, slither and galumph...