Word: polysyllabicism
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While sentencing a forger in Klamath Falls, Ore., Circuit Judge Edward B. Ashurst (brother of Arizona's polysyllabic Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst) digressed to criticize a bill for overtime submitted by Court Clerk Walter Hannon, called it disgraceful, intimated that it was not legal. Hopping mad, Clerk Hannon waylaid...
Laymen who hear scientists indulging in polysyllabic shop talk are likely to regard them as cloistered visionaries who pay scant attention to what is going on in the workaday world. Last week, however, a bevy of savants approaching Chapel Hill, N. C., showed that they at least glance at the...
Sample: "Beware, the fate of all Kings' mistresses will soon be yours!" This was written on an expensive letter card, Mayfair-postmarked, and three days later Mrs. Simpson received an identical card in the same typewriting which read: "Had you been living 200 years ago, means would have been...
The creature thus celebrated was a 60-ft. plant-feeding dinosaur, tentatively named Atlantosaurus montanus, discovered in Colorado. The verses were composed by an author-traveler named Frank Cowan of Greensburg, Pa., published in Vol. III, No. 1, of Ward's Natural Science Bulletin, dated Jan. 1, 1884. The...
"Jungle English'' is what Crusader Herbert calls the tangled verbiage so dear to polysyllabic politicians, patriots, businessmen. Many of his horrible examples are taken from the venerable London Times. He translates into Jungle English a passage from the Anglican Catechism ("My duty towards my Neighbour is to love...