Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain on the Leftist side and they were at least going to say their say at the finish. If the censure motion was bitter, it was nothing compared to the way in which terrier-sized Clement Richard Attlee, Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, tied into Mr. Chamberlain. Said Major Attlee: "It looks as if the Prime Minister has given away everything and got nothing in its place, not even a 'thank you' from General Franco. This is not in the interests of democracy or the interests of the safety of the British Empire. The Government...
...Mr. Chamberlain, visibly disturbed, attempted to soothe the Opposition by reading a telegram which he had received from General Franco, giving what the Prime Minister chose to interpret as "assurances" that Loyalist rights would be respected. When Mr. Chamberlain read a Franco passage saying that "Spain is not disposed to accept any foreign intervention which might injure her dignity or sovereignty," the Opposition laughed derisively and long. But the Government had the last laugh, defeating the censure motion...
Happily at work at Los Angeles City College studying U. S. colloquialisms is Pedagogue Lester V. Berrey. Last week in American Speech, a Columbia University Press quarterly, Mr. Berrey learnedly and approvingly discussed contemporarv U. S. journalists' efforts to combine old words into new ones for more exact shades of meaning. The practice, he pointed out, is at least as old and respectable as Shakespeare, who made the word rebuse from...
...Mr. Berrey did most of his research in Walter Winchell's column, Variety, Billboard, "cinemags," Reader's Digest, TIME, LIFE. Some nuggets...
...best, reports Mr. Berrey, was a magazine's typographical error: "The auto approached the coroner at 70 miles an hour...