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A TYPICAL STORY!
"When I arrived Home on leave I bought
› a second-hand car. It looked fine, but after 6 weeks I became so "fed up" with all the trouble and expense I was having with it, I sold it and bought a NEW FORD and brought it back with me. Never had the least trouble with the new car and the rest of my leave was the most enjoyable I've ever had."
THIS STORY IS NOT ONLY TYPICAL IT'S TRUE. WE COULD GIVE THE NAMES OF MANY PEOPLE IN THE COLONY WHO HAVE HAD JUST SUCH AN EXPERIENCE.
LET US PROVIDE YOU WITH A LETTER TO THE FORD MOTOR co. of ENGLAND, LTD. WHEN YOU GO ON LEAVE IN CASE YOU BECOME INTERESTED IN A CAR WHILE AT HOME.
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TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1937.
PHYSICAL TRAINING AND NUTRITION
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EIGHT SORTS OF SLANG
RETRANSƏ Flowery Doll for Prison Cell.
ZOOLOGICAL
Fenland Nightingale for a Frog.
VERYBODY'S using it now. Hats, caps and mortar-boards of to slang! The taboo is raised. Words and phrases are accepted in polite conver- Ballon everywhere to-day which would have sent their users to Coventry a hundred years ago.
That's a way slang has. It was once well described as "a pecu- lar kind of vagabond speech, always hanging on the outskirts of legitimate speech. but con- tinually straying or forcing its way into the most respectable company."
The oldest slang still in general. circulation comes from the dust- heaps and the cellars of history. from thieves and vagabondă, from tong-forgotten and utterly dis- reputable men and women, froin Bash coves and covesses who in- vented words that, after centuries. ut take the car-and-the-tongua You speak the English language."
Chinu- Yes, but whose English?
Durtie's. Gladstone's. Mr.
Bald- win's, the BBC's or Hollywood's? You probably speak most of them
inn language which, in its accents, derivations, habits and routine, is all your own.
eer's. Spenser's, Shakespeare's.
A year to year, sometimes a day to day, language. And 14 is largely kept alive by slang.
Why, the verb "walk" derives from the Anglo-Saxon wealean, meaning to roll. And it apparently came down to us by way of a slang -extension of the elder word.
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Well, slang has just achieved its Greatest dignity with the appear-- ance of a handsome blue-covered volume, containing more than forty thousand words and phrases used from the fifteenth century to the present day A Dictionary of Stang and Unconventional English, by Eric Partridge. Rout- ledge, 42s.).
The first phrase in the book is "A.A. of the G.G." In other words. the Institute of the Horse and Pony Club, founded 6lx years ago. "Literally," saya Mr. Partridge, the Automobile Association of the Gee-Gee (or horse)."
RIPARIAN Dock Pheasant for a Bloater.
NAUTICAL
Pint of Mahogany for Cup of Coffee.
ANATOMICAL Pew-Opener's Muscle Jor, Palm of the Hand.
SEMI-REVERSED On Pinurt Pots for No Turnip Tops.
SPORTING? ` Curse of Scotland for Nine of Diamonds.
English
with its
Coat Off
by ROGER PIPPETT
because the train ran to Zummer- zett.*"
I began to read this dictionary with the best of intentions.
1
even set out to trace different soris of slang-rhyming slang, Great War alang, workshop slang, 'pro- But Mr. Part- fessional slang. ridge soon put pald to that. There are far too many exciting words on a page for calculated or persistent inquiry.
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So I simply hared after any word in sight.
Page 289 kept ma busy for an hour. "Flop
"nop over" and round "I knew, But "flounder and dab," as rhyming slang for a cab.. was new to me. 50 was "flowery dell for prison cell. And "flue- taker," meaning a chimney-sweep or a "low sporting man, because he used to bet on the great sweeps."
"To be up one's flue," or in an nwkward predicament, was com- mon eighty years ago. "Say it with flowersi (say it nicely!) came across the Atlantic, for the first time in 1925. Fluff" several meanings-from theatrical slang (to forget your part) to rall- wayman's slang for giving short chango or for porters "hanging about in the hope of getting a tip.".
"movies" is followed immediately by Moving Picture Slang."
If you ever hear a flm director shout "Gertrude! he is less likely ta be calling for Miss Lawrence than for that glant steel erung with A camera at its head, which enables shots to be taken of players And going up and down stairs.
Dollies are low, rubber-tyred trucks on which cameras chase the stars as they hurry through hotel corridors or along the decks of ocean liners.
on
"To do a Gayner" signifles to amile upwards through swim- ming eyes, 23 tribute to Miss Qaynor's ability to switch "the sunshine through the tears." "To do a Garbo," as everyone Bhould
hould guess, means to be proud, aloof and unbending.
Hundreds of Mr. Partridge's- words and phrases are now obso- lete. Once the catchwords of the town, they are to-day dead as a doornail, dead; as a herring, dead as mution, dead as a tent-peg, dead as Julius Cæsar.
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You don't hear people saying. "There's a deal of glass about when they mean that someone or something is showy. "Go hand- somely over the bricks" is no longer synonymous for "Be care-
Nor ful! " to come after with the salt and spoons for dawdle. And "starring the glaze." for breaking a window, went out too many years ago.
CRIMINAL Starring the Glaze Jor Breaking a Window.
a circus performance, short weight from a costermonger, a walch- chain or any chain whatsoever. And, Incidentally, “knock-out" has four meanings, from an illegal auction to a man who does aston- ishing things. -
Bome siang words have turned turtle in the flood of time. .The adjective rum," for instance. originally meant fine, good, valu- able, handsome, great. But it be- came comparatively rare in that schso
after 1310.
"rum And cove" for a rogue was in circula- as carly as the seventeenth century.
Mr. Partridge is pleasantly up to date. He gives us "Ring up the Duchess" and "I must ring the Duchess," And everyone who, a year or so ago, saw that uninten- Young tionally hilarious play,
that know
the Englund," will phrase is "applicable to the reso- lution of a doubt or the settlement of a problem." Or, rather, was, since it is now obsoleto.
-bobble.. The words race past. delo nammow, hoik, Jack Adams, kicksic, Lord Muck, monaker, pew- opener's muscle, pontle, squint- minded, scabby
senni- squirrel, swatchel, tavarish, tighten one's galubich, tusheroon, go cross-
neck,
home by Woodcock's Cross, ers, yurse, zigzag, zooks and
zoom,
Some slang looks like living for over. Some dies almost overnight, That's slang, that was! But slang itself will persist as long as there are quick-witted, tolerant, unsen- timental, secretive, light-hearted men, women-and-children-It- keeps the language moving, defy-. ing-hypocrisy, hyperbole and high-
falutin.
As an American poet has put it. "Slang is language which takes off Its coat, spits on its hands and goes to work."
Whilst the main features of the British Government's physi- cal training scheme, especially its non-compulsory character, are generally welcomed, it is being pointed out in certain quarters that it has its limita tions. Lord Baden-Powell de- clareil recently that "it is Igood imporing um under fad,
mal-nurtured boys hard physical | exercise. The thing is to
got them to feed properly on good plain food." Thus to advance a physical training programme before a nutrition scheme, may The to put the cart before the horse. The Parliamentary Secre; tary to the Board of Education recently agreed that physical training given to under- nourished children would do more harm than good and promised that where symptonis of under-nourishment were ob served by those in authority, physical training would be ac- companied by feeding. Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins has asserted that there can be a degree of under-nourishment which will gravely undermine the future health of children and yet not be observed by physical instructors, teachers and medical men. If the health of young people is to be safe.. guarded and if they are to be made capable of profiting by physical instruction, their need for special feeding must be as- sesset on an income basis, The minimum expenditure on which a person can maintain average health has been placed by the British Medical Association nt
Similar theories apply equally well 68. per head per week whilst full
to ghostly occurrences that take place physical fitness, according to
In everyday life. It is possible to sec a ghost, but many of the reported Sir John Orr, can only be
cases of ghosts are, I
I am sure, pro- I have seen fully formed phantoms guaranteed by a weekly
bably
not seen at all appear in a room in which, owing to observer save in the mind's penditure of 10s. The greatest A there such things as "ghosts," and If there are, is it possible
the strict electrical control, move- The imaginative person can conjure single strkle which could be to see them, touch them, speak with
ment on the part of anyone present up a phantasm as real as life itself taken towards the improvement them? These and similar questions
was absolutely Unpossible; 1 have touched the
and be quite certain that he has seen "teleplasm the physique of the nation have always been of great interest to
humanity.
"cctoplasm" which has issued from ghost. But this is purely sub-
jective. would be to keep children out I do not propose that this article
the medium and forthed into the "What if tho phantom is seen by of mills, factories and mines un- should be in any way an answer to til their bodies are fully de. † them. It is merely a brief statement| definition is:-"An exteriorisation of emblance of human limbs;. I have two or more people?" you may paki objects move apparently of their "It is not reasonable to suppose that or see subconscious medium's of the theories and beliefs formulated the veloped. It is felt in some by one who has spent a lifetime secondary personality made possible in volition from one spot to an two people imagine the same thing
other; I have known other
objects
Jectant the
time. Therefore, the quarters that nothing could be investigating paychle phenomena, in by the conditions of the seance room, to appear apparently from nowhere ghost actually does appear. What more retrograde than
the many countries, who has come into and the self-induced trance."
and I have witnessed a hundred and then?!* andheld seances with contact
This Government's decision to pass practically every noted medium
may
somewhat sound of
reply that the Spiritualistic It is the only one similar manifestations. Yet not technical. I'm sorry. An Education Bill which sends recent years, and who has investi-way in which I can
express the one of these can I attribute to beings hypothesis certainly appears to fit the
of another world.
facts in a more admirable manner, 50 per cent. of school children gated many of the hauntings alleged actual meaning the word has for me. appears to me more probable lo but there are other theories which prematurely into industry. to occur in certain houses.
Further, it indicates practically all In the first place, what is a ghost? the theories which I have adopted suppose that the human mind has fit equally well. One could assume, Those children will be much with regard to those which appear but om quite willing to change it power over malter, and that anyone, for instance, that in. life it is too exhausted to benefit within the seance room, sometimes sufficient reason or proof
given the right conditions and the sible to stamp a part of one's per- by the Government's scheme. under strict test conditions,
necessary nervous energy, could sonality
upon "ego" Or
places where my incorrectness be given me. In this connection, public
imitate the peculiar activities of the one has lived or even upon the air medium.
we breathe, and it is not strotching 18 being drawn require measures such as re- Power of Mind Over Mutter ·
There may be a certain amount a point to say that under
certain to the necessity for physical medial exercises and open-air
Inherent in It in my opinion that the great of "teleplasm"
conditions this scrap of human shell education. as distinct from holidays with pay. Any realis-powers of the human mind are as yet systems which each one of us could might be able to materialise and
and ap physical recreation, which is the tic consideration of the problent but little understood, and were in be able to materialise and mould to peur as in life.
-the principal pre-occupation of the of national physique indicates ancients than they are by ourselves, I believe that it is quite possible for ghost of, say, the former resident of
appreciated by the our wills, given the right conditions. It is absurd to imagine that voluntary organisations. Cleri- the urgent need for a compre. The spiritualists claim that most of a medium to do this, and to make an old castle has to appear regularly, cal workers do need recreation hensive national health policy the phenomena: brought about in objects move, even to deliver mess- year in year out and it is equally at the end of their working day dealing with hutrition, leisure, rooms are due to the agency of the without being in the least aware of continually slaughter their victims in their properly controlled seance ages and speak in a foreign tongue, fullle to imagine that murderers must. but industrial workers, too tired physical training and the dead, I say that they are probably what is transpiring. This has nothing the after-life to which they for ordinary physical exercise, scientific prevention of disense. due to the medium alone.
to do with Spirituallam.
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And the last phrase is "the Zulu a certain Express," which was Great Western afternoon train. 'Railwayman's slang at the time of the Zulu War (1879). Probably
Then I turned two hundred and, Afty pages and it on "movies." Which may mean the flms, flicks or plctures, or certain eighty-foot
bullt
United Jaunches
in the
War, States during the
or the And searchlights of a battleship,
The word slang" itself 'is a knock-out. It can also mean non-" sense, humbug, a line of work, a hawker's licence, a travelling show,
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT
GHOSTS?
By STUART DEVANT
truth more
of
their
scen
Of
outr
A DYING RHYME Flounder and Dab for a Hansom Cab.
Seen By the Mind's Eye'
aume
by
the
eye.
pos-
are