Word: minerally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quote from a letter written by myself from Jorgeney, France in April 1918: "There is a former classmate of U.C., a Lieut. Searls here. He is a common earth son of a miner back in California. At college he was a regular fellow, good scrapper, tobacco chewer and brilliant student. Didn't take him long to make good in the mining game; one of the best geologists in the West, and when the War broke out he was earning big money. He enlisted as a private in one of the first engineering regiments going over. Was made a sergeant...
Impossible Job. Then Alex Morden, a miner, bashed in one invader's head with his pickax. The invaders asked Mayor Orden to sentence him, to preserve order. The Mayor said he would, if the invaders would shoot the 20 men who killed the loose-hung soldiers. Then Colonel Lanser, who really knew what war is, smiled a little sadly. "We really have taken on a job, haven't we?" he said. "Yes," said the Mayor, "the one impossible job in the world, the one thing that can't be done." "And that is?" "To break...
Everything, it seems at first, is in this book; such ghoulish, semi-slang tintypes as "God's image cut in ebony" (for Negro); such beautifully graphic trade terms as the miner's "snow" (for the sifting of earth presaging a cave-in), the ballplayer's "floater" (for a slow ball), the prostitute's "pivot" (for solicitation from a window). Practically all the unmailable words turn up, along with a tremendous set of their variants and embellishments. So does the surrealist language of drug addicts, the high-heeled dialect of perverts, the likable archaisms of lumberjacks (they...
...Corn Is Green (TIME, Dec. 9, 1940). The warm story of the education of a talented Welsh miner, with Ethel Barrymore playing teacher...
...Panther halfback Edgar ("Special Delivery") Jones, son of a Welsh coal miner. In the first quarter, Jones threw a daring 28-yard pass that set up one touchdown. In the last quarter, with the Rams trying desperately to tie the score, Jones intercepted a pass, streaked 30 yards for a second touchdown and a 13-to-0 victory that blasted Fordham's dreams of a Rose Bowl bid. It was the first time Fordham had failed to score since...