Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...temptation to choose an unfamiliar word for its mere sound is a trap that has caught others besides the Government and Mrs. Malaprop. The prodigious oaths of small boys can scarcely be called profanity: they are nothing more than an innocent Pistolese, "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Politicians, publicity agents, and country ministers have vocabularies of similar range and equal disregard for dictionary conventions. One is reminded of the early CRIMSON book-review which said that Professor Norton's notes on the Lowell letters were of course "of infinitesimal value...
...temptation to choose an unfamiliar word for its mere sound is a trap that has caught others besides the Government and Mrs. Malaprop. The prodigious oaths of small boys can scarcely be called profanity: they are nothing more than an innocent Pistolese, "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Politicians, publicity agents, and country ministers have vocabularies of similar range and equal disregard for dictionary conventions. One is reminded of the early CRIMSON book-review which said that Professor Norton's notes on the Lowell letters were of course "of infinitesimal value...
Zander the Great. Salisbury Field, author of Zander the Great, is one of the most graceful writers of drawing-room comedy. He is, .in a way, the American A. A. Milne. An adroit describer of familiar and unfamiliar types in the upper and middle circles of American life, he can always be depended upon to be amusing...
...winter sports season reaches its semi-finals this evening, with the triangular track meet and the second Princeton hockey game contending for honors. Captain Owen's team will be on unfamiliar ice in the new Baker. Memorial rink, and the players will lack the support of a friendly audience to cheer them; but they will have the memory of an earlier defeat to urge them...
...course appears profitable. Laboratory work in psychology is as common as in chemistry; strange things are said to happen behind closed doors on the top floor of Emerson Hall; and at a nearby women's college "psych" is such a fad that several hundred students are learning two unfamiliar foreign languages, merely for the purpose of computing a certain mental factor. But at Chicago, and in the field of love psychology, the possibilities are infinite...