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...many younger men will be leaving is not known for sure, except that one tutor is definitely going. One instructor will be absent on leave, and three others have been awarded Guggenheims, slang for a fund to finance projects away from the University which could not otherwise be undertaken for financial reasons. Tutorial work will not be greatly affected, since only five more men will be assigned to each tutor, and none of the older pro- fessors will be pressed into service. Sections will remain the same in size and number, and salaries will...
With as many shibboleths and countersigns as a dime novel, the Beggars have methods as effective as they are penny-dreadful. Routine and deadly are sniping isolated German soldiers, drowning them in convenient canals. "Moffen (slang for Germans) cocktails" spiked with sulfuric acid were served so freely that Germans no longer care to drink in public bars. Other favorites: poisoned pencils to be jabbed into Germans in crowds or the darkness of theatres, strychnine crystals dropped into plates of food from under the fingernails...
...commentator on a short-wave show: "The boys around the New York clothing district, as well as up in The Bronx, cabled us a delightful assortment of colloquial messages, which were more fun than a traveling circus. Some of their cables contained a rather amazing mixture of good American slang, fairly bad German and excellent Yiddish...
...attention. General Charles de Gaulle, leader of Free Frenchmen, stepped ashore. He kissed Governor General Colonel Leclerc on both cheeks. An officer of the Duala garrison shouted, not exactly in the military tradition: "Here you are at home and there's plenty of pinard" (French soldier's slang for wine). Then a pandemonium of cheering broke...
...British slang expression-which originated from a rider's sensation of breath less leveling off when his horse breaks from trot or canter into full gallop-is "flat out." Last week at last, Canada was flat out in her war effort...