Word: talbot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Allen F. Hetherington, Jr., Huntington Schools for Boys; John J. Griffin, Jr., St. John's Preparatory; Phillip G. Sullivan, St. John's Preparatory; Ralph D. Powell, Jr., Noble and Greenough School; Francis J. Paradise, Keith Academy; Robert A. Stillman, Taor Academy; John F. Wilson, Mount Hermon; and Richard J. Talbot, St. Mary's High School...
...been to add the suffixes -agger, -ogger, and -ugger to the initial consonants of all titles of dignity. Thus Queen Victoria was dubbed The Quagger; the Princes of Wales (in the case of both Edward VII and Edward VIII) found themselves Pragger-Waggers; and in 1890, the Rev. Talbot Rice, Rector of St. Peter le Bailey, became The Tagger Ragger of St. Pagger le Bagger. Meanwhile, an Oxford specialty was adding -er to everything: eccer (exercise), fresher (freshman), roller (roll call) and The Jowler (Greek Scholar Benjamin Jowett...