Word: shinful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sinn Fein is pronounced "Shin Fayn" and means literally "We Ourselves...
...original library card catalog was on ¼ sheets of foolscap. Experience, showed it to be very wasteful of both time and space. Why can't we profit by this experience and make our paper currency at once better and cheaper? During the Civil War, we had shin-plasters of even smaller size and everyone had made a them cheap most folder that convenient kept and them flat durable. . If and the Treasury can't be induced to reduce the size of all bills, it might at least give us $1 and 50c bills of postal sizes. MELVIL DEWEY...
Rowdyism. At several points rowdyism assumed serious proportions. In Glasgow, H. J. Tennant, the Liberal candidate, was forced to seek police protection, while Miss Violet Robertson, Conservative for the St. Roller constituency, was spat upon, "kicked in the shin" and "treated insultingly" by a crowd of hooligans. In London H. Hogbin, Liberal candidate for Battersea, was forced to cancel all his meetings because he could never make himself heard. Even the pleas of his opponent for fair play failed to help matters. Lord Curzon was another victim of the rowdies. There were many other incidents of "howling down" meetings...