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...fields, old ways" to the obstinacy of coal miners who labor in wretched forms of physical drudgery, yet "are more averse to new machinery than the mine owners are. . . . When the love for an old hall by a college pf dons dooms charwomen to carry coal scuttles up and slop jars down three flights of stairs, the conservatism has a flavor not idyllic. Yet kitchen help in my college almost struck last winter over the installation of a plate-washer...
...have some expressions and a few adjectives, adverbs and participles perhaps unfamiliar. Hash on toast is, roughly translated, slop on a shingle. Telling a tall story is snowing. But in the main, we seem to talk quite ordinarily, only somewhat more vigorously than we did as civilians. Even in the Air Corps we call an airplane a ship or a plane, and we do not "rev her up," we only run up the engines and fly around hoping we won't be "jumped by the Nips, shot down in flames and have to hit the silk...
...gray fox was recently presented to the Bronx Zoo by an up-State Italian farmer. The zoo's veterinarian remarked about the fine condition of the animal and asked the farmer, "What have you been feeding him?" "He eat the spaghett--lotsa spaghett. Slop like for the pigs, too," the farmer replied. The veterinarian said he never saw a better fox, according to Animal Kingdom, the Bronx Zoo's bulletin.--N. Y. Times...
...Bubbling." At 2 a.m. on Monday there was a wisp of gas and a roughneck snapped "Fires out!" The drill motors and the engines of the watchers' automobiles were silenced; greasy mud began to slop out of the two-inch tube onto the derrick floor. All night long the Cottingham belched and spluttered, while roustabouts scraped the mud into testing tanks...
...happy and healthy and a lot of them said that they would like to stay there. . . . An amusing thing to me was watching the natives come aboard the ship bareheaded and after giving one of the natives a checkered cap they all bought one from me out of the slop chest. One of the natives was wearing a bathrobe that one of the crew sold him for an overcoat...