Word: viz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beautiful over the phone. After several trying months of elocution lessons this proved to be the case. Gambit contracted with Mrs. O'Reilly to make 50 phone calls a month to his College room in not less than ten and not more than fifteen different tones of voice. viz: weeping, gay world weary...
...beautiful over the phone. After several trying months of elocution lessons this proved to be the case. Gambit contracted with Mrs. O'Reilly to make 50 phone calls a month to his College room in not less than ten and not more than fifteen different tones of voice. viz: weeping, gay world weary...
...Gentlemen-Now I suppose that if I do not write and tell you that I will stop using the name 'Statler' in my advertising . . . you will make trouble for me. That will be an awful hard thing for you to do for several reasons, viz., as follows and to wit: there is a substantial mortgage on this place. I do not keep any checking account, holding my cash in my left and right pants pockets and keeping my accounts on a clear pine board which I burn on March 16, after having made a true and honest accounting...
...Fanatic Koch propounded an interesting ornithological theory: that chaffinches have different accents in different parts of the world. Playing the song of a British chaffinch, German-accented Dr. Koch said: "Ant now, as you vill see by my next record, zee German chaffinch, unlike zee Kent chaffinch, finishes op viz a sound like 'wurz debur.' " Sure enough...