Word: webster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vulgarity: something vulgar?for instance, seating a chimpanzee at a formal dinner. ?Webster...
...courtyard quickly filled with culturati. As Sydney J. Freedberg '36, professor of Fine Arts, intoned to a group of young ladies who had regrettably forgotten their Webster's, Seymour Slive, professor of Fine Arts, bemoaned what he felt amounted to a 30-year wage-price freeze at Harvard and mused about the next slow boat to Flanders...
...define the word is not so easy as it might seem. We generally think of the transfer of money as the element that makes prostitution a crime (although money plays a subtle part in all sorts of sexual relationships). Yet in a number of states, as well as in Webster's newest dictionary, the definition of prostitution includes not only the exchange of money but also the rather vague concept of promiscuity. Ohio law, for example, forbids both getting paid for sex and "the offering of the body for indiscriminate sexual intercourse without hire." But what is "indiscriminate...
...KERRY WEBSTER Seattle...
...lovely word. If anything it is a shade too lovely, something to be tasted, rolled over the tongue, chewed lightly, savored and then, perhaps, not swallowed but spit discreetly into a tub of clean shavings. But what does it mean? The first dictionary to come to hand, an old Webster's, does not list caprifole at all. The unabridged Random House mentions only "caprifoliaceous: belonging to the Caprifoliaceae, a family of plants including the honeysuckle, elder, viburnum, snowberry...