Word: receipt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blitzmas pudding, as widely dished up in the United Kingdom last week, was the same as the traditional Christmas (or plum) pudding except that carrots were much used where the receipt called for certain fruit. There was no Blitzmas shortage of nourishing food but instead of "Christmas goose," turkey or other high-priced fowl* most people, including the armed forces, chomped cheap Empire beef or mutton on Dec. 25. Officers of about the rank of colonel, if at all prosperous themselves, generally treated their men to free beer...
...Crimson acknowledges receipt of a similar letter from the Mountaineering Club, and regrets that it overemphasized the athletic abilities of the members of the two clubs...
...little girl because she was "born out of all reason on Christmas day" and hence "denied the consolation and profit of a proper birthday." She celebrated in Manhattan in the manner stipulated by the legatee-"by the sporting of fine raiment, eating of rich meats and receipt of gifts, compliments and copies of verses according to the manner of our ancestors...
...CRIMSON is also in receipt of letters from Livingston Hall, Professor of Law, and Raymond Dennett, Secretary of the Committee on Civil Rights...
...some of Britain's stuffier personages. He ordered the Civil Service to stop talking what he termed "officialese." Said he: "Let us have an end to such phrases as 'consideration should be given to the possibility of carrying into effect,' such terms as 'The receipt of your communication is hereby acknowledged with thanks.'" The Manchester Guardian promptly dubbed the Prime Minister "Jack the Jargon Killer...