Word: noun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American writing. The taste of the fastidious will always lead them to prize the sweet restraints of good English usage. But for God's sake, TIME, stop "upping." If you "up" one thing more "a thumping -%" I will up my lunch. "Up" is adverb, preposition, adjective, and noun. Even in TIME'S conscience isn't that enough...
...Bindle" is a Pennsylvania Dutch version of the German noun Bündel, in which the umlaut u is pronounced as in the French...