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...AMERICAN THESAURUS OF SLANG-Lester V. Berrey and Melvin Van den Bark-Crowell...
...hard spanking of Havelock Ellis, he accuses Ellis of betraying his Puritanism by using the word obscenity-though he himself has used the whole thesaurus of sexual fear and shame...
...blue cards, to be attached to interoffice correspondence, an oft-repeated question of Secretary Morgenthau: "Does it contribute to Recovery?" At the White House, when Mr. Roosevelt expressed displeasure at "appeasement," correspondents asked him for a better word. He mused a while, then said he would look in his Thesaurus, tell them later...
...John Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Peter Roget's Thesaurus of English Words & Phrases, Henry Thomas Buckle's History of Civilization are three indispensable aids to erudite orators...
...hundred Harvard men, more contributors than from any other college, have written articles for the fourteenth edition of the Encyclopedia Brittanica, according to a recent survey. In all there are 3,700 contributors to the 20-volume thesaurus of knowledge. American contributors number 1,250 and of these 16 per cent., or 200 authorities hold degrees from Harvard...