Word: shillinger
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I should like to know your authority for the abbreviation SS. for Saints. According to my Webster if it were small ss it should be interpreted "shilling-shilling Peter and Paul"; if capital SS, either South-South or Southern Southern Peter and Paul. And I judge the correct abbreviation should...
Some 250 years ago, Cockney Nell Gwyn, self-styled "Protestant whore" of King Charles II, unable to write her own name, initialed a 12-shilling receipt "for a pair of rich embroidered garters." Sold at famous Sotheby's in London in 1939, the voucher, without the garters, brought ?70...
From April, 1933, until last week, the Japanese yen was nailed to the prestigious British pound at the rate of one shilling twopence per yen though Japan's purchases from Britain were small potatoes and the U. S. far & away her best provider. When Europe's war sent...
Moaned an Etonian two days later in the Personal column of the London Times: Will the numerous Harrovians who, in at tempting to divest a very old Etonian of his trousers, deprived him of two treasured five shilling pieces and a gold safety pin please return one or all to...
The start was a beauty, but so tightly packed was the field at the first jump that three horses went down for keeps. At the fifth jump Royal Mail faltered, and Under Bid flashed out in front. Into Becher's Brook (socalled because 100 years ago a Captain Becher...