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of civil toTM military needs. One but has a vision splendid of every

mortal thing except the military machine suddenly coming to an absolute full-stop when Prince Konoye or General Sugiyama de- cides that the moment is ripe for letting things rip. One word, and the "total sacrifice" of all civilian requirements is decreed; all tools are owned save lethal weapons and the instruments that shape or serve them:

Let laws and learning, art

and commerce die, While we prepare to blow

ourselves-sky-high.

Actual experience during the last great war does not, how-

Hong Kong, Saturday, January 29, 1938 ever, suggest that it is altogeth-

OVERWORKED WORDS

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Colour

er easy or even helpful to obliter- ate civil life. The cry in August, 1914, of Business as usual may have been rash and ill-advised, but there came a time when it was urged by more than songsters In spite of the cynic's opinion that there was merit in a deter- words were not given to most of mination to keep the home fires burning. Of course, systems us în order that we might con-

that begin by giving children ceal our thoughts; with many people a much more attractive military training in time of peace possibility is the chance of us-may be able to go the whole hog ing the same catchword of the more effetively if ever war breaks out; they may have mastered the moment as often as possible. Purists may toil after the right grand art of feeding the dog on its own tail. But that remains word, but the populace (which in

to be seen. that sense stretches from top to bottom of the social scale) plumps for the words that everyone else is using. It is really a dull and tiresome tendency. even if the catchword possesses any sort of shallow glitter to begin with, it We have no desire to alarm very soon loses it, and it fs with anyone unnecessarily but it is the hope of checking the habit announced from New York that that certain Americans have “dinner jackets in robin's-egg been drawing up a list of "the blue or pastel shades of plum, ten most overworked words in maroon, fawn, and Capri blue are the United States." Most of predicted as forthcoming fash- them have a painfully familiar ions for men. ring and would have to appear

In fact, New York tailors are. that on any list of terms.

are so confident about it that one of ruthlessly hard-ridden in this them is reported as proclaimin Colony. “Okay" tops the list,"We have simply stopped making though it seems that it is most-black dinner jackets.” ly used by "children and shop- Undoubtedly in this Colony we girls." Here it might be attri-shall work the colour-hunger out buted to the same types, but of our systems by some other there is no doubt that we owe way, it certainly seems most im- its existence to the United States. probable that there will be any "Terrific," is another catchword wild rush for dinner jackets“ în that is overused by "all persons pastel shades of plum or Capri exposed to Hollywood for more blue. From time to time there than twenty-four hours,” and is individual talk of a revolt and one may brand with the same re-a getting away from the plain proach that inelegant adjective black and white in men's even- “lousy." Is that by any chance ing dress, but little seems to a borrowing from Britain? Cer- come of it save now and then tainly it was widely used a year coat or jacket in a navy blue so or two ago; if Hollywood is still dark that it shows little differ- faithful to it the term must be ence from black under artificial a singularly permanent parasite light. It is to be feared that in those regions, or it may have most men, when they order even- reached them more recently. If ing dress garments,, do so with it was sent over from England, the idea that those garments it may be said that the British will remain serviceable for people have counter-attacked to period of years, and any excur- some purpose for the invasion of sions into plum or Capri blue the far less disagreeable "okay." would brand the vintage One word in the parade of hacks unmistakably.

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