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...English Dictionary, edited by Sir James A. H. Murray and others, under spit (Vol. IX, Pt. I, p. 628), he will find cited such English colloquialisms as: "you are a queer fellow-the very spit of your father." ... In The English Dialect Dictionary, edited by Joseph Wright, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Comparative Philology in the University of Oxford, under spit (Vol. V, pp. 669-670), he will find other examples of old English usage: "that barn's as like his fadder as an he'd been spit out of his mouth." . . . The same saying is to be found...
Turning to America, we find in Dialect Notes (Publications of the American Dialect Society), Vol. 1, Pt. 5, p. 232: "the ve'y spit an' image o' him," reported from Kentucky. . . . And, finally, in Uncle Remus, in "Mr. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last," Joel Chandler Harris (the distinguished father, I assume, of our present correspondent) writes: "He had a wife en th'ee chilluns ole Br'er Tarrypin did, en dey wuz all de ve'y spit en image er Je ole man." It will be noted that Mr. Harris indicated the omission...
Released to first-run houses all over the U. S. fortnight ago, Vol. 4 No. 2 had been doing a big business for two weeks, but last week it made news ot a different sort in New York City. New York is currently in the throes of a mayoral election campaign in which photogenic Mr. LaGuardia is being opposed by Mr. Jeremiah T. Mahoney, who is the Democratic candidate. Tammany Hall still controls the Borough of Manhattan pretty thoroughly and Radio City's Music Hall, M. O. T. first-run house in New York...
Last week Fortism had its renaissance in Vol. 1, No. 1 of a slim journal called The Fortean Society Magazine, edited by Tiffany Thayer. The lead article, written by Publisher Thayer, purported to prove that Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan were "murdered"-i. e., went astray in the Pacific because geodesists do not really know how to make accurate maps of the earth's surface. A black-bordered rectangle bore the legend: "These honored dead were Forteans: OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES - LINCOLN STEFFENS." The magazine also announced that astronomers played down a recent eclipse of Venus by the moon...
...DEPTHS & THE HEIGHTS-Jules Romains-Knopf ($3). Vol. VI of Romains' monumental novel-about-Paris, Men of Good Will (TIME, June 5, 1933 et seq.). In this installment Novelist George Allory, bitterly chagrined by his failure of election to the Academy, begins his tumble to the gutter; while Psychiatrist Viaur starts climbing to the stars. No end is in sight, and Author Romains has not divulged how much is yet to come...