Word: originally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your June 7 issue appears one legend as to the origin of the gypsy clan. Here is another one which was taught the children of Ukrainian descent in Austria-Hungary...
...called Molotov because he sometimes hinted vaguely at being of Russian origin and because he was jubilant over Russian victories. He was called the Mayor of Broadway because of his equally vague and Bunyanesque tales about the life he led in New York. Actually he had been a busboy in a nightclub...
...melancholy. "Astrologists and psychologists are taking away the bread from the mouths of our wives and mothers," complained the chairman of a Rumanian gypsy congress. In Poland, gypsies developed a kind of gypsy Zionism, demanding that Britain grant them a national home in India, the country of their origin.* Nothing came...
...London Congress will try to find out. Delegates from 55 nations (teachers, nurses, industrialists, clergymen, psychiatrists) will attack the problem of mental health all over the world, from every possible angle. They will explore the origin of group mental disorders, such as class and national hatreds and prejudice against minorities...
Panic by Degrees. "The fire department has run itself ragged putting out blazes of unknown origin and unexplained size . . . Crime has increased, naturally. Street lights keep blowing out, and the police signal and radio systems have suffered from jamming. Absenteeism is terrific on the night shifts, because people have taken to staying home after dark. People have taken to staying home in the daylight...