Word: lether
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...from succeeding himself in the big white Governor's mansion built by brother Huey, but last week paunchy Earl sprang plans for a brazen circumvention: he will 1) resign as Governor just before the Sept. 15 qualifying deadline, 2) turn over his office to loyal Lieutenant Governor Lether Frazar, 3) campaign for a new term as Frazar's successor-and thus, as even head-scratching lawyers had to acknowledge, technically avoid the constitutional ban on succeeding himself...
...five years readers of the Chicago Tribune have puzzled their way through such simplified spellings as "agast," "crum," "fantom,' "jaz," "lether," "staf," and 74 other phonetic short cuts. One day last week Tribune readers were agreeably surprised by a lead editorial headed: LACKY, PASS THE HEMLOC...
...have stood for a good deal of lether lunged laughter in our bailiwic," stoutly concluded the edited editorial, "but we've got an intern in the house and we can take...