Word: vernacular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editorial vigor. He expanded the chain boldly into New York, Washington, Birmingham, Albuquerque, Fort Worth, etc. Far from making his papers pale stereotypes of one another, he encouraged local editors to lead their communities, as the Cleveland Press's Louis Seltzer has so notably done. Howard, whose vernacular is as colorful as his rainbow-colored shirts, developed Columnists Heywood Broun, Westbrook Pegler, Ernie Pyle, Robert Ruark, lets Mrs. Roosevelt write as she pleases, even though her views often conflict with...
...other, a public information short, narrates the work of railroad detectives, or "cinder dicks" in the railroad vernacular. These "cinder dicks" guard cars filled with $75,000 worth of cigarettes, keep hoboes out of cars, and apprehend pickpockets in terminals...
Finno-Ugrian, a dialect of the Ural-Altaic language, is spoken in Lapland, Estonia, and Northern Siberia. Friesian is the vernacular of the Northern Netherlands and Friesland. Hyperborean, the oral-communication of the Chukchi and Koryak Eskimo tribes of the Arctic, is also spoken in Outer Mongolia...
...Yale Daily News published one (1) edition on Saturday--namely the Post Game Extra, popularly labled extra number two, which contained only football information. 6. Our funny friends from the north were responsible for the publication of two bogus Newses which preceded the legitimate issue--in the vernacular, "The Parody" and Extra Number One. 7. Great game...8. Great weekend... --An editorial from the Yale Daily News, November...
...During her three-hour ordeal, Mrs. Mclsaac goes into ecstatic trances. Afterward she describes her visions. A Catholic priest who has investigated them terms their details accurate as to background, architecture, dress, manners and language: "In the visions of the Passion, for instance, not only does she hear the vernacular of the time and place, Aramaic, but distinguishes between dialects of this tongue. She describes the . . . Roman eagles, fasces and other objects in very simple language but in great detail...