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Expert fly-fishermen regard dandified little George Michel Lucien LaBranche as their foremost U. S. authority. His Dry Fly and Fast Water is an angler's lexicon. Occasionally, for reasons which his friends have never been able to discover, he goes fishing in hipboots, cutaway, light waistcoat, wing collar. Fisherman LaBranche is also a stockbroker, and a rich one. He learned his trade at the swift hand of an authority as revered among brokers as is Mr. LaBranche among fishermen. For years he was secretary to the late great Speculator James R. Keene, whom J. P. Morgan the Elder...
...very bright lexicon of diplomacy, few phrases are more useful than "in principle." Last week after a fortnight of preliminary bickering, seven nations- Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Norway, Japan-accepted "in principle" the tariff truce proposed by President Roosevelt, and signed an agreement to that effect. Its second sentence...
...consists of 78 syllables, and 169 letters (in Greek). It is denned in Liddell & Scott's Greek-English Lexicon (edition 1863) as "the name of a dish compounded of all kinds of dainties, fish, flesh, and fowl." What a way to spell hash...
...Every lexicon but youth's is bright enough to include such words as "fail," but not every dictionary is first-rate. The appearance of a first-rate dictionary is a newsworthy event in literary history. Since Nathan Bailey's Dictionarium Britannicum (1721), these events can almost be counted on the fingers of one hand.* Though every dictionary is more of a Who's Who of words than a supreme court of language, it is the ambition of every lexicographer to be the final arbiter. Generally acknowledged by scholars to be the nearest approach so far to supreme...
Aircraft radio is slowly producing a lexicon of abbreviations which some day may be as familiar as nautical signals. The U. S. public hears little about them because all domestic transport lines, Eastern Air excepted, use radiophone (voice) transmission. E. A. T. planes are equipped with radiophone for short distances, the more penetrating dot-dash radio telegraph for long range. Pan American Airways, whose ground stations are far spaced through tropical latitudes where static is frequently bad, uses code telegraph exclusively. Phone-users may, if reception is poor, whistle their messages in dots & dashes...