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...word (about 1760) and used by boys behind the barn some 20 years ago, "hump" is seldom heard in a sexual sense today. In the magazine (For Men Only) that printed it (and was acquitted of obscenity by a New York City magistrate) the word was used as a noun meaning "prostitute": "I walked at night, asked every hump I passed if she knew a Louise...
...runs in the Earle family. Eyvind's father, Ferdinand Pinney Earle, is noted not only for five successive marriages and a generally Byronic character but for his writing. He recoined the delicate noun "affinity" into its special sense of "soul mate." A stage designer, he made the Star of Bethlehem and Valley of the Lepers sets in Ben Hur. "Affinity" Earle now lives in France. Eyvind's uncle on his mother's side is slight, dark Dr. William Carlos Williams, the realist poet of Rutherford...
...English language owes a debt of incalculable size to Buncombe County, N. C. for a fine eight-letter noun that aptly identifies certain types of insincerity. The U. S. Senate owes a debt of questionable size to the same county for Senator Robert Rice (''Roarin' Bob") Reynolds. Last week Washington newshawks had fun with an incident that concerned Bob Reynolds and somehow seemed to recall the name of the county of his birth...
Logorrheic is an adjective founded upon the Greek roots logos (word) and rhein (to flow). Webster's New International Dictionary lists the noun TIME used adjectivally: "Logorrhea (psychopathological). Excessive and often incoherent talkativeness...
Webster's Dictionary defines the noun Norse: ". . . Collectively: a. Scandinavians. b. Norwegians...