Word: l
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the War it was an Englishman who said the Americans were worse than the English in the difference between spelling and pro- nunciation. "You spell it W-i-l-s-o-n and pronounce it 'House,'" he remarked...
...your excellent paper of Oct. 21! noted a letter from George L. Moore explaining about the word lagniappe (lanny-yap). I wish to men-.tion that our "oldtime" Negroes (and many whites also) used a word which meant exactly the same thing; the word was Koontra, and is supposed to be of African origin. No matter how small a purchase they made, they never failed to ask for Koontra...
Enemies dragged the name of Clemenceau into the Panama scandals of the '90s. Though falsely accused he lost his seat in parliament, seemed ruined. But another scandal?the Dreyfus case?made him a hero. As editor of L'Aurore he wrote the famed caption "J'Accuse!" above the most potent of many articles by Emile Zola which eventually freed Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus from "Devil Island," where an anti-Semite French government had sent him to rot. The fight to free Dreyfus took six of Clemenceau's and Zola's best years. Last week the grateful captain stumped around...
...citizens realize that he went out of office in 1909, that he was not Prime Minister of France during the first three years of the war. As editor of L'Homme Libre and, when that was suppressed, of L'Homme Enchaine, he preached such deathless, rampant patriotism, printed such reckless denouncements of even highest government officials when he suspected them of pacifism, that at first some thought him mad. In the end. all France saw him as the incarnate Will to Victory. In 1917 the allied reverses and the fall of the Painleve Cabinet left President Raymond Poincare an alternative...
...Harvard University and Freshman track teams will start regular practice for the winter season next Monday, without the services of Coach E. L. Farrell, who is recuperating from an operation for appendicitis at the Brooks Hospital in Brookline...