Word: tit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kent's Puerto Rican postman a brown girl in a white shift has just received and opened a letter by which she appears greatly affected, as well she might. It reads: "Puerto Rico miuniera ilaptiumum! Ke Ha Chimmeleulakut Anga-yoraacut. Amna Kitchimi Autummi Chuli Wapticum itti Cleoratatig tit." To the art officials of the Treasury Department, who hired Mr. Kent, as to other civil servants including Post Office Department guides, this gibberish had seemed merely one more artistic whimsy. But Mr. Stefansson said it was a message in the Kuskokwin dialect of Eskimos in Southern Alaska which meant...
...puzzle known as the rebus is supposed to have originated in Picardy. a French province famed for its roses, in the early Renaissance. French schoolboys still have fun with such ideographic riddles as G a, which may be read J'ai grand appetit (G grand, appétit). More complex rebuses are pictures whose elements, correctly named and put together, make up words or sentences. Printing six riddles of this type every week in 308 newspapers. P. Lorillard Co., makers of Old Gold cigarets, began last February the longest and best-sustained wit-baiting promotion on record...
...Blue was three years writing. took Author Brier step by step over the Tennessee battlefields he tells about. And, like Stephen Crane, who had never seen a battle when he wrote his war masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage, Royce Brier reports fighting not as a tricky tit-tat-toe of tactics but a muddled melee of men. To stay-at-homes with a clear wrong view, the war might seem a campaign, a crusade, a cause; but to the men who did its manual labor it was "a bellyache, a confused strife for boxcar space, a useless march...
...Italo-Ethiopian crisis of last winter, it would have been beneficial to have known beforehand that "Sanctions" as the League of Nations chose to apply them were going to be worse than useless. If it had been further known that the British were secretly playing tit-tat-toe with Italy and France behind Geneva's back (TIME, Oct. 14, 1935, et seq.}, the League states would never have voted Sanctions. In lost trade, Sanctions must have cost at least $275,000,000-a particularly dead loss. Last week, when the Inter-American Peace Conference rose, it had been...
...Wildfowlers since earliest times have for ever bewailed the disappearance of the good old days. 'Fowling,' they say, 'is not what it was, and probably never will be again.' Ever since Colonel Hawker wrote so scathingly of the Milf ord snobs -that unrivalled garrison of tit-shooters and shore-poppers, writers would have us be lieve that the sport has been on the down grade. But I believe this to be a fallacy...