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Etonians use relatively little slang, get most of it from Latin. Some Etonisms: bumble (small beer with raisins), furk (an illegal football kick), lush (sweets), nant (a swimmer), pec (money-from pe-cunia), Pop (famed Eton society, from popina, a cookshop, where meetings were originally held), sock...
...birthday party for his beloved Japanese brother-in-law and at the height of festivities was found dead, "officially" by his own hand. Last month Bolivians went to the polls for the first time since 1931 to elect a President and chose the Army's choice-General Enrique Peñaranda del Castillo, not too smart politically and "friendly" to the local "interests...
...voting was scarcely done the North American Way. The voters had been given no opportunity to elect anyone who had not fought in the Chaco War. That invalidated the two other candidates. But General Peñaranda no sooner donned his sash of office than he began to claim democracy had been restored, to talk about how warmly he will "welcome" and "guarantee" foreign capital invested "to improve communications and build hydroelectric plants...
Jolly, champagne-bibbing General Peñaranda is an almost pure-blooded Indian. He is personally so democratic that La Paz expects him now to marry his half-breed chola, a charming lady who should make it fun to go to parties at the Bolivian White House...
...late Melvil Dewey was a daring man. He invented the library system of decimal classification, crusaded for the metric system of weights & measures, sponsored simplified spelling used on the menus (pe sup, hucklberi pi) of the fashionable Lake Placid Club, which he founded. If Melvil Dewey had been alive last week, he would have chuckled over his daring granddaughter Katharine...