Word: pap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quail Stuffers. To fatten quail for market, Italian and Polish gaveurs (bird stuffers) work in Paris market-hall cellars, chewing up grain and fruit into a pap which they let the quail eat from their mouths. The pecking quail abrade the gaveurs' lips, noses, chins. The peckmarks become infected, ulcerated; the gaveurs are miserable, sometimes die. ... So reported the Journal of the American Medical Association, ever on the alert for new occupational diseases...
Prior to perpetrating such pap for gullibles, young Erskine Gwynne, son of the late famed international polo player Edward Gwynne, reamed high explosive shells in a French munition factory (1915-17), soldiered in the A. E. F. (1917-18), and worked his way around the world on cargo boats (1919-22). Returning to Paris he found a berth with exquisite yet potent Henri Letellier. Of this Croesus among Paris publishers it is said on intimate authority that he owns 1,260 suits of clothes, and everyone knows that he has eleven motor cars, favoring Voisins. Le, tellier has been Mayor...
...usual interest. Keynoter Bowers had won great and sudden fame at a Jackson Day dinner (TIME, Jan. 23), by a brilliant attack upon the Harding "gang." In an era when oratory rarely moves, he stirred righteous indignation in the bosoms of embattled Democrats. He was expected to eschew political pap, offer a program of progress...
Rotarians were especially puzzled by Count Keyserling since their official mottoes are "Service Above Self" and "He Profits Most Who Serves Best." For all who simply cannot understand philosophy, Count Keyserling has pap. Example: "America is ruled by women...
Nevertheless, shoulder-slapping, grips and the password, "Howdy, Pap!" were not entirely laid aside before the Mooses sat down to discuss their concrete program. The word "pap" does not connote, to Mooses, a bland sort of mush or gruel fed to infants. When Moose greets Moose he merely pronounces the initials of "Purity, Aid, Progress." There was, of course, a gorgeous parade, which rain could not discourage, through streets which the Philadelphia Moose lodge (the largest, with 30,000 members) had spent some $35,000 to decorate becomingly with moose statues on pedestals, an arch of loyalty, flags, bunting...