Word: phlegm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...geopolitician, Professor Spykman wrote with the colossal calm of the new fatalism in which geography is destiny. A Dutchman (he was naturalized in 1928), he viewed destiny with the phlegm common to a people that has lived for generations below sea level. A professor of international relations at Yale, he thought with the cold-bloodedness of a historian who knows that nations come & go, but that the human race goes...
...stirring nor as plain as Winston Churchill's words, which always have enough tabasco in them to remind Americans that Winnie is half-American himself. Nevertheless, though Lord Halifax was obviously not the kind of man who ever could or ever would quite clear his throat of British phlegm, by last week the U. S. had begun to appreciate British understatement, of which the Ambassador was a 6 ft. 5 embodiment. Observed Lord Halifax: "Therefore it must be our aim in the present war to convince the people of Germany that these traditional ambitions and methods...
...Hippocratic oath,* still followed by physicians today); 3) make careful scientific observations (he published a classic description of tuberculosis); 4) let nature take its course, instead of using drastic purges and operations. Nevertheless, he strayed from the scientific path in originating the universally popular doctrine of "humors" (blood, phlegm, yellow and black bile). Imbalance of humors, he claimed, caused all disease...
Food, especially pudding, inspires British schoolboys to a "peculiarly revolting form of humor" (e.g., maggots-in-milk-rice pudding; cats' eyes-in-phlegm-sago pudding). For their headmasters they have many names: the Boss, the Chief, the Dox, the Twig, the Pot (also Jerry). A chambermaid is a skivvy, a woman, a hag. Tea, coffee or cocoa is hogwash or pigswill. A boy who studies hard, swots, is treated with the contempt which he deserves. Many and lurid are the names for a new boy: new brat, new squit, new scum, fresh herring. Richest and nastiest is the group...
...goes big on Phlegm and Physic