Word: cheats
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Unrivaled for the richness and variety of its slang is Winchester, whose famed founder, William, of Wykeham (1373), decreed that its boys should talk Latin. Winchester finds it necessary to supply new boys with a glossary of its slang. Some Wykehamisms: abs (absent), chiz (cheat), cud (pretty, from couth, opposite of uncouth), infra-dig (scornful-to sport infra-dig duck, to look scornful), glope (spit), swink (sweat), thoke (idle in bed), ziph (a kind of pig Latin), plant (sock someone with a football...
...good can come of a Harvard student washing his own clothes or trying to do so, as was thoroughly demonstrated yesterday when Joseph Lyford '41 tried to cheat the laundries...
...affair begun by Sophie's perverse need and boredom, matured by Duncan's perception, patience and intelligence. The story suggests not only the particular value of the erotic experience for the blind man but the civilized human sanity of his conduct. And-since Author Heppenstall does not cheat, or barely does at the happy end-the particular hell through which this love affair has to pass arises precisely from Duncan's psychology of blindness...
...first he envied the great composers for their ability to cheat their mortality. Music like this couldn't possibly be something made and then cast away. It was an indelible part of the man that wrote it, and whenever it was played or wherever it was played, the composer lived again at a thousand different places. It was alive and vital, for Vag was sure that nothing inanimate could affect him so deeply. And more than any other form of expression, more than literature or art, music was timeless and everlasting...
...come-on she used to be, Miss West implements this return to her spiritual home in the gamy 'gos with the expert services of Director Edward F. Cline, the ex-Keystone Cop, who invented Bathing Beauties, and Producer Lester Cowan, who taught Hollywood (with You Can't Cheat an Honest Man) that Comedian Fields is at his best when he is playing Comedian Fields...