Word: sobriquets
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...will be dubbed as a squadron, "THE BELLY BUMPERS." We are considering at present the Pilot Fish for an insignia-which if adopted, I am sure will hr.sten the above christening. In order, therefore, to prevent our being caught napping, and to lend dignity to a most undignified sobriquet, I feel that a translation printed in Latin beneath the insignia would be the answer. The zizzing of TIME'S razor blade smartness prompts me to apply to you for suggestions as to the best manner in which to phrase Belly Bumpers in Latin...
...abundantly, but without garnish. The two however, are not necessarily mutually exclusive. The best teacher combines progressive scholarship presented in an interesting way. These unfortunately are the exceptions, and many an entertaining course is denoted not by the subject matter, but by the name of the teacher, or his sobriquet...
...believe I am the creator of the sobriquet 'Tiger' with a capital 'T' as applied to M. Clémenceau." said Editor Emile Buré of the Paris daily L'Avenor last week. "I am proud of the achievement! It will perhaps furnish the only chisel ever likely to cut my name in the granite of History...
...dentists found the President in a better mood, they would have been interested, when he smiled, in his teeth. On the left side the upper molars are worn down, presumably by chewing pipes and cigars, to a peculiar slant which helped earn him his campaign sobriquet of "Beaver...
...Kept Woman Authoress Delmar again looks at Bronx domesticity, makes the colloquial-trivial often seem tragic. The story concerns one Lillian who preferred the sobriquet "kept woman" to the meaningless "wife." Her preference undoubtedly stemmed from the fact that her Keeper Hubert had a frigid, wealthy spouse who typified none of the connubial felicities. But Hubert feared that a divorce would cost him the lovely suburban retreat which Mrs. Hubert had financed, so he cherished Lillian in a Bronx apartment on $15,000 acquired by selling his pitiful business. A series of bibulous, wretched parties fast depleted the finances...