Word: thesauruses
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...curious book," exclaimed the London Critic, but that was about as far as the reviewer would go. The book in question .was a new sort of dictionary, compiled by a local doctor named Peter Mark Roget. As far as the Critic could see in 1852, Roget's Thesaurus would never prove to be really "useful...
...reviewer soon learned how wrong he was. The doctor went right on producing editions of his Thesaurus, and he could scarcely keep up with the demand. By 1869 he had edited 28 editions, was working on the 29th the night before he died. Last week, as Britain celebrated the 100th anniversary of the first publication date, the Thesaurus had passed the 80-edition mark-a standard piece of equipment for three generations of professors and poets, statesmen and scholars, and crossword puzzle fans...
...Truman replied that he thought Morris, to do a bangup job, should be able to promise cooperative key witnesses immunity from prosecution. The immunity was his own idea, he said, and there wasn't any bug under the chip (meaning concealed or secret, according to The American Thesaurus of Slang...
...Thesaurus. In Charleston, W.Va., after consulting the rule book, Western Union told Mrs. A. W. Hawkins Jr. that she must use no such insulting word as "moron" in her telegram, accepted the wire when she substituted "witling...
...Pill." Carter's went on to claim that the increased liver bile would enable the pill-taker to overeat and overindulge in "good times" without morning-after regrets, to wake up "clear-eyed and steady-nerved," "feeling just wonderful," and "alert and ready for work." Copywriters combed the thesaurus and found no less than 30 synonyms for the sluggishness which the pills were said to cure...