Word: sesquipedalian
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...Sesquipedalian Words. Last week, U.S. readers could find out a good deal more about the panjandrum. A group of scholars, critics and historians had written sketches and tributes for a book about him (Archibald Henderson: The New Crichton, edited by Samuel Stevens Hood; Beechhurst Press; $5). Among the contributors were the late Historian Charles A. Beard, Novelist Betty Smith, and the university's ex-president (now U.S. Senator), Frank Porter Graham. Each took a different phase of the Henderson chronicle...
...Parliament, when not crusading for something, he crusades against crusaders. At his naughtiest, he has driven verbal splinters under Lady Astor's fingernails,-or lit dialectical firecrackers under the earnest Left. At his nicest, he has tilted at sesquipedalian government reports (his parody: "It has been aquating hard. I am now going to dehydrate my socks"). At his sanest, he helped win the first marked mitigation of Britain's stringent divorce laws since...
...sedate Letters-to-the-Editor columns of the New York Times are usually stiff with sesquipedalian discussions of such matters as the U.S. debt and the minority problem in Macedonia. It is a forum that attracts Supreme Court justices, ambassadors and college presidents. But occasionally, as last week, a plain, ordinary person sounds off on a really universal theme...
...school with a sesquipedalian name this week sent its first alumnus to work in the State Department. The School of Advanced International Studies and Foreign Service Training Center was under...
...shall . . . [enjoy] the ecstasy of the starry stillness of an Arizona desert night or viewing the scarlet glory of her blossoming cactus," cried oratorical Henry Fountain Ashurst at the finish of his Senatorial career two years ago. For 29 years in Washington the sesquipedalian Senator had dreamed aloud about the home state he so rarely saw. Last week the Arizona Tax Commission had a demand from him for a $72 refund. A year ago, he pointed out, he had established residence in the District of Columbia...