Word: pidding
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This hodgepodge of Basic English, pid gin French and Southern drawl, punctuated by flyers' gestures, is the lingua franca in use at a U.S. Army school for French Army aviation cadets. Before they arrived at Hawthorne Field in Orangeburg, S.C., the French trainees, fresh from service abroad, were taught 40 hours of Basic English. Meanwhile the field's American instructors were given a short course in French. But when the two groups met in the pressing routine of learning to fly, rote-learned vocabularies vanished in the propwash...
...swaggering Chicago shortstop who, drying himself in a locker room, said scornfully in early season: "Major league pitching is more of a cinch than Coast League," who the week before the Fourth batted .240. They considered National League personalities: those famed roommates and Cincinnati outfielders, Marty Callaghan and Everett ("Pid") Purdy- Callaghan tobacco-chewing, closemouthed, bearing himself with a martyred manner before umpires; pert Purdy, the chatterer, the magpie. They considered Andy Cohen, smart at second for the Giants, surprising at bat, prize of the seven-years' search of Manager McGraw for a Jewish player to pull...
...Banner of the Seven Veils and the Bell which Rings in the Dark. Some other official spokesman for the ethereal may quickly come to the aid of this lady whom the Albanian Comus would discredit. Until then the Crimson stands alone Margery, essence, quintessence, undefiled, the local pid to notoriety the face which launched a thousand messages she must not be defiled unless Congress would really like to investigate...
...Whidden is very effective as Punjab, and J. C. Miller, as Sthu Pid, the rival for the possession of the kingdom, imitates excellently the Chinese dialect, although he fails to speak loud enough at times. I. T. Cutter, as the Rajah of Mandalay, does what is perhaps the most laughable work in the performance. The best handling of a part, however, is that of R. Wellman '03, who impersonates John Class, the antiquarian. The part is the most difficult in the play and it is rendered with a cleverness which is enhanced by a distinct enunciation. If one especial fault...
...unaware of his royal rights, abruptly enters and is shortly accosted by John Cass, an antiquarian and phrenologist from the British Museum. Cass tells Punjab that the right ear of the idol is the key to the kingdom, so together they break it off, and each takes half. Sthu Pid, the Chinese guardian of the idol, at once discovers the theft, and greatly frightened, is about to make s search, when he is interrupted by the arrival of Eben Roger, the Mayor of Unity, Maine, with his daughter, Lily, and her maid, Sue Brett...