Word: herring
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Among the more important books published was Professor E. P. Herring's "Politics of Democracy" now used for collateral reports in Government...
Professors Wild, Herring, and Haring offer excellent Faculty Footnotes; Arthur Cantor '40 has an article favorably sketching PM; Jack Bronston '42 denounces in not-so-new fashion Mayor Hague; and Thomas O'Toole '42 completes a very worthwhile issue with his essay on the New France
...Jerry). A chambermaid is a skivvy, a woman, a hag. Tea, coffee or cocoa is hogwash or pigswill. A boy who studies hard, swots, is treated with the contempt which he deserves. Many and lurid are the names for a new boy: new brat, new squit, new scum, fresh herring. Richest and nastiest is the group of epithets schoolboys apply to townies, the lowest form of animal life, or schoolmates they dislike. Samples: swine, tick, cad, oik, lout, drip, squirt, scug, goof. Townies often retaliate: e.g., their name for schoolboys of Durham University is varsity tits...
Seymour E. Harris, "Social Security" and "Economic Aspects of the Farm Credit Administration"; E. Pendleton Herring, "The Executive Legislative Balance"; Earl G. Latham, "The Origins of the Police Power"; Donald C. McKay, "A History of the Third French Republic, 1871-1914"; Edward S. Mason, "Problems in Monopoly and Competition"; and Carle C. Zimmerman, "The Evolution of the American Community...
...Hurok, whose bland smile and herring-strong Russian accent help him play the jovial, avuncular manager to perfection, has made S. HUROK PRESENTS-he insists on big type-a profitable billing in U. S. concert business. He arrived in the U. S. in 1905 with less than $2 in his pockets, knocked about as a peddler of pins & notions, a trolley conductor, a factory worker. Fond of music, he organized the Van Hugo Musical Society (he invented the name, which he thought imposing), and arranged concerts for labor organizations. His first real artist was Violinist Efrem Zimbalist, whose...