Word: neighbours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simple, like a country neighbour...
...Like Dorothy Dix, Editor Defoe spun many a moral sermon in order to get a confessional letter into print. Sample from his "Advice from the Scandal Club" column: "Gentlemen ... I desire your advice in the following Case. I am something in Years, yet have a great Affection for my Neighbour's Wife, and she no less for me; her Husband is sensible of it, but seems indifferent, so that nothing but a few Scruples of Conscience bars my way to Enjoyment; which if you can remove, it shall be acknowledg'd by, Gentlemen, Your Humble Servant...
...that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour...
...Jungle English'' is what Crusader Herbert calls the tangled verbiage so dear to polysyllabic politicians, patriots, businessmen. Many of his horrible examples are taken from the venerable London Times. He translates into Jungle English a passage from the Anglican Catechism ("My duty towards my Neighbour is to love him as myself, and to do to all men, as I would they should do unto me:"), thus: "In connection with my co-citizens a general standard of mutual goodwill and reciprocal non-aggression is obviously incumbent upon me; but a comprehensive delimitation of my obligations might be grouped under...
...were to ask him whether he believes in ghosts he would answer: "I am prepared to consider evidence and accept it if it satisfies me." He thinks he will probably write no more ghost sto ries. These he made up mostly for his own amusement; one ("A Neighbour's Landmark") for an Eton periodical; one ("Wailing Well") to scare the Eton Boy Scouts as they sat around their campfire...