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...called 'intelligences test,' as an alleged means of measuring native ability and 'intelligence,' is of very recent origin. . . . Group tests proved to be 'both cheap and speedy and were quickly injected into the public,schools after...
With reference to the initials U. S. S. R., certain Frenchmen have recently advocated calling Russia "Ussar" and dropping forever the word Russia, pointing out that it is of comparatively recent origin. Russia was known until the 18th Century as Muscovy...
Elkdom's origin dates from one November night In 1867, when an English comic singer landed in Manhattan, strolled down Lispenard Street, dropped into a "Free and Easy," sang songs for his supper, made friends. The friends threw dice for their drink but the Cockney showed them a better game: dropping corks on the bar and picking them up, the last man to recover his cork standing treat...
...stately Jumel Mansion in old New York, where once was Washington's headquarters; she drove her gay coach-and-four through the gaping streets of Saratoga Springs in the heyday of its glory; she built up a fancy fairy-tale of gentility to account for her origin and bulwarked it with cunning lies and deceit. But she never became really respectable. And who shall blame her? At all events her picture, in all this historic frame, glows astonishingly meteoric and lifelike and hangs smiling in the timeless, inglorious gallery of the Du Barrys, the Maintenons, the Pompadours...
...origin of the colloquial word 'jazz' is shrouded in mystery. The story of its beginning, that is most frequently told and most generally believed among musicians, has to do with a corruption of the name 'Charles.' In Vicksburg, Miss., during the period when ragtime was at the height of its popularity and 'blues' were gaining favor, there was a colored drummer of rather unique ability named 'Chas. Washington.' As is a very common custom in certain parts of the South, he was called 'Chaz.' 'Chaz' could not read...