Word: scunner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along his path Dr. Jarvis has developed a scunner against high-protein diets, cane sugar and wheat bread (he prefers rye or corn). He has also picked up some vague racial ideas-that Americans should eat the same types of diet as their European ancestors, whether Nordic, Alpine or Mediterranean. Thus Nordics are urged to "live out of the ocean," eschewing good red meat and chewing fish instead...
Readers who want to give up the time to sit a spell and take it resty are sure to find a heap of olden tales calculated to scunner the young'uns with fright, like the one about the red-haired man whose head doddled about when he walked or talked, or some others that would pleasure them, like the one about a king's daughter that was a sight how pretty. This might well be the last chance, too, for as one old granddaddy after tother told Schoolma'am Campbell: "Tale-telling is nigh about faded...
Just what caused the committee's scunner against Pike was never made clear...