Word: lei
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LEI SHAN, S.J. Chutung, Formosa...
...Lei, Lee. Nothing is better fun for the nonscholarly reader than Graves's vast sneer at the scholarly mind, given at a Yale lecture. In this mock-solemn legpull, Graves gravely gives a pathologicon of pedants' diseases. Sample: cacography,i.e., bad writing, a scholarly affliction that leads to "the inability of college graduates to read or write." For some extreme types of academic affliction, Graves recommends a Demosthenic treatment: "Fill the sufferer's mouth with pebbles and make him explain his theories in simple language to a mixed audience of Texan cowhands and Boston longshoremen...
...that he graduated from Oxford only by an "arrangement" with the regius professor of English literature), Graves suggests that even as a schoolboy he could not resist the temptation to make light of learning. He declined the name of Mr. Lees, the Latin master, as "Lees, Lees, Lem, Lei, Lei...
Greetings from Japan. Taking note of Howard's globe-trotting habit, Model Judy Coate draped a lei around his neck (see cut) and the tape was turned on for "Japanese opinion" of Editor Howard...
...Canadian firms dealt in such stocks as "Stampede Petroleums Ltd.," "Oakridge Mining Corp." and "Candoo Metals & Oils Ltd." Their persuasive salesmen, charged the grand jury, called likely prospects with phony reports of new oil and uranium strikes. A favorite trick was to quote a stock at one price, then lei a sucker buy it for less, pretending he was getting a tremendous bargain when actually the stock was worthless. One promoter made a sale by gasping over the phone that he had "just run in from the field" where a new well was brought...