Word: plurality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pronounced like the plural of Gideon...
...FIRST PERSON PLURAL-Stackpole...
EZEKIEL-Elvira Garner-Holt ($1.50). An unpretentious children's book about "a lil' cullered boy, an' he names Ezekiel," who lives in Sanford. Florida with "he Pappy and he Mammy an' he Sister Emancipation an' he brudder Lil' Plural an' Assafetida, de baby." Although he and his family do not live up to the glorious promise of their names, Ezekiel has enough adventures in 39 pages to make the book one of the unexpected best sellers of the season...
Polygamy-or, as the Mormons delicately called it, plural marriage-was not et an acknowledged Mormon practice. Mormon communities in the East and Midwest were surrounded by citizens who frowned on such Old Testament goings-on. But Prophet Joseph Smith had already secretly taken the step, initiated a chosen few into the same fellowship. Rich, a sobersided, promising and healthy recruit, was one whom the Prophet commanded to do likewise. He talked the matter over with Sarah and both decided to comply with the semi-divine command, provided Sarah chose the candidates. In quick succession Husband Rich took on four...
...case it interests you the word "gimbals" (always plural) is derived from the old French "gemel" meaning a twin, and they may be defined "as two brass rings, which move within each other, each perpendicularly to its plane...