Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With alarm, the Daily Mail's Correspondent G. Ward Price reported that the horrid word "spiv" was "on every lip." He thought that it had something to do with people observed carrying large sums of cash, presumably to dodge taxes. A gentleman sardonically signing himself Sam Johnson asked in the Daily Telegraph: "Is 'spiv' . . . an abbreviation; if so, of what? Is it an importation; if so, from whence? Or is it perchance compounded from initials-'Social Parasites in Vehicles' . . . or the 'Society for the Promotion of Illegal Ventures...
They Won't Believe Me. Robert Young, Rita Johnson and Susan Hayward are respectively expert as a kept husband, his keeper, and the girl who doesn't get away with him (TIME, June...
...PORTABLE JOHNSON & BOSWELL (762 pp.)-Edited and with an Introduction by Louis Kronenberger-Viking...
Readers who know the name of James Boswell only by hearsay are likely to consider him an intellectual lackey who simply recorded every scrap of conversation that fell from the nonstop mouth of Samuel Johnson. But he was much more; as Louis Kronenberger points out in his introduction to this handy Portable, Boswell was both a kind of genius and "a tissue of contrarieties." The man who rushed off to a brothel on hearing of his mother's death "was both cocksure and uncertain of himself; painfully self-searching yet comically self-deluded; a Tory in his beliefs...
...Johnson proposed that a vote on the composition of the commission be deferred until tomorrow...