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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY (45-1958.

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A HARD YEAR FOR THE 'WORD MEN'

This Ghost Sputnik Gave

Went Wandering

Oxford.

Oxford's "ghost" was laid to rest last week -in his own room. The "ghost" turned out to be a 19-year-old law student doubles guitarist.

08

For almost

Lexicologists

The Jitters

By DOC QUIGG

New York. who You think you've got troubles? Consider the plight of the poor fellows who have to decide what a jazz

new words are to go into our dictionaries every year. Last year has been a nasty year. "Sputnik" alone is enough to the give a dictionary editor fidgets.

week, Ox- ford authorities have been Badgered by

complaints of "trange happenings" in un

various

u empied

colleges,

100ms ju

Tat explanation, given by the unidentified · student to mporer, was simple, He re-

turned to Oxford and discover- thats rent had gone up by ten shillings a week, Ho couldn't afford it, so he moved out. He couldn't afford anything clae either.

SETTLED DOWN

So, at dusk each night, he wandered into a college, found

and unoccupied room, led down. Each morning,

Add to it the whole new coincident with range of gab

this world and getting out of then try to decide how many of this batch of words are kong to be with us for some time.

Put It Off

David Gurotnik, Chief Lexicographer and Editor of Webster's New World Diction- ary, has solved the sputnik problem by putting it off.

"We're

walling for It

quite carly, he left.

By this time, there were too stabilise itself. Of course, 1* many ghost stories, so he wenthe Russian word for satelite." and got another room in town. be sald

Now, the only ghostly thing left about him was his identity. When he "confessed" he used a pecudomym.

Russian word

"The base of the word is the 'put' meaning road. This is profzed by the

A University authority sald's sound which means with

He might very well be expelled for his explots-if anyone knew

who he was.--United Press,

REFEREE WAS MENTAL!

Cherry Burton. Members of this York. shire Village's football team thought the little man they hired to referas their match had a lot of chack.

Ho Was so thoroughly unpleasant, in fact, that they complained to the Referees' Association. When the Assoolation said it had never heard of the the team old checking.

man. more

It found the "refores" WEE B patient from m montal Institution three miles away,—United Press.

Telegraphic Tabloids

Parla.

or along with. The nik' is the Russian Buffix equivalent to the English 'er' or 'ist' as in former or journalist.

A

"So, it breaks down to 'one who goes along the road with, fellow traveller' hence a satellite. When the word was first Introduced in American newspapers, 11 was the Ameri- can proper name for the first sarillic. Then came Sputnik II. As of the moment English, it is the word for two specific thing. But when the first American the ants up. what will it be called?”

New Problems

The new defence Rems Biso give dictionary mien problems,

"We did get Nike and Texas Towers into the dictionary,” “ Le said. "After all, a lot of cities were surrounded by Nike bases and the towers were well known, but then we began to be flooded by Redstones and Vanguards and ICEM' ond Thors and Jupiters. We're fol- lowing a polley of wall and see.”

I asked Guralnik what would happen if I made up a word like "spuiziked” as in “we were sputniked"-meaning, naturally, "besten in a contest in which you were never engaged in the first place."

"You start a word like that, Poller arrested 33-year-old and we'll record it," he said.

But the

the Remy Barrols for Imitating an

entry into American Army Officer.

dictionary depends on

usage. it in print a Ilis uniform: Khald trousers, We'd have to sec

over a Jacket and military hat decorat number of times and ed with the insignia of the period of time, And then, 01 Brussels Trolley Corporation, course, the media in which it

appears will be a factor."

United Press.

London.

There

oat word in Garainik's dictionary which be Bgures will take

我

bit of

definition-Axing before long:

Kennel Maid, Jean Powers, "Spaceship -

hypothetical

was hospitalised with a suspect- rocket-propelled altship for in-

ed fructure and internal injuries terplanetary travel"

after she was run over by a

dog.

She was locked down and Injured when a greyhound ron into her at the finish of a race. -United Press.

A

Now Entries

Here are some new entries

scheduled for the next printing, carly this year:

"Xiam," a verb, as in "to ham In- It up." "Detect," transitive verb,

13 in "the "Gola," 5 #ignal the

used in hi-, meaning

Derby vantrainquis!'s dummy soldier defected." preached a sermon here.

The Rev. Philip Schofield, asirength. "Outgoing," ventreloquist, wald he used the psychological rense, as in "an dummy. "Jimmy" at a service outgoing personality." for 2,000 children "because gor," a verb, "his remarks trig- congregations remember what For a night."

*T

Jimmy saya better than some of But "crash" in the sense of the sermone I give in my own "erash programme" is still in volca."--United. Prers,

Bournemouth.

Post office sorters were alert-

ed today to watch for

KLO

the files. "They're waiting • to

see. So are a lot of other pen- ple.-United Press,

IT'S ONLY

envelops marked ""Betty.""

Belty malled her pay suvelape74 O'CLOCK

and took

United Press.

latter

Copenhagen

stubbington. bitewna. 126 phlock by. the shuron valovi at OS10 CMT here. The methically » controlled Holanwtons hi Herning come church clock wound up for 1:3 plained to city authorfiles that Tam chim kod didnt stop their, washing (barns red.

ringing moti: it had banged Vi

Oniciais said then, dilseniorasian | i

was caused by tiut în pipra juten väliesen mit the" clock 'raohalla» | kan bean doing. I OVNY Morning

Trading from a

Snaugurated water blant." ave

United-Prom.

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KILL ME!

SHE DID

Farmer Raffaele

Naples Dalessandro,

28, gave his girl friend a revolver four years ago RAY- ing "shool as if I don't marry you."

He didn't, She killed him with it last week.

Police arrested the girl, Morin

Ballyn, Rotondo

25. She hadn't seen Raffaele for a long time until she saw him siting in a car in the village of Parele. near here.-United Press,

Couldn't Stand

The Shame

Vienna.

An Austrian peasant hanged himself rather than go to court-even though he was only a member of the jury.

The pearl who was not identified by police here, told trloads be "could not stand the shame” when warned he 10938 week. due for jury duty next

He refused to believe their ex- planations that a Juryman is on order.→ the side of law and United Press.

JOEY POPPED Does Your Dog Have Problems?

Canine Psychiatrist

IN, AND THEN

OUT AGAIN

Wilmslow.

It looked Jike the und for Joey the budgie bird

here.

Joey

flaw out kho owner,

window while his

Mra Margaret Gnayd, wa cleaning his cage. He i

on

three doors

-away-and was immediate- by the house ly stalked cat, a 14-year-old tom cat, named Ginger.

Ginger

pounced and Jooy was goner, right Into Ginger's mouth. The cat picked up the bird, trotted up to Mrs Breyd, "and laid him at my foot like a trained retriever," she said,

"Joay oldn't not even have a feather ruffiad,” Mrs Sneyd aldUnited Prens.

Bank Sends

Flowers Now

Oslo. Bankers have furnished a new service for the forgetful wife or husband.

on

Will Solve

Them All

For You

By JOHN D. PARRY

London.

Died Rich (£142,000) THEY GROW

A

He Would

Not Touch

BIG

Dirty Money IN RUSSIA

Blackpool.

ragged_re- cluse who ate nothing but fruit and refused to touch dirty money hoarded B fortune worth nearly £142,000| in

bank and old suitcases in his ramshackle flat, it was disclosed last week.

bearded, tagore A

a

He lived in aqualer in a two- 100m dwelling among 90,000 Looks, some of them rare collec- tors' pleces, which towered in rix-foot stacks' over

old

an

Moscow

·A· fifteen year -

nature boy who weighed 64 pounils when he was 18 months old, "Is startling his neigh- bours with his physical prowess. ⠀ He's Vasya Pavlov, of Pakov,

calor high school student who stands 8 feet 7 inches, welche 354 pounds bbd Nos ormai chest incasurement of 4 feet 6 inches,

According to a recent issuo of Komsomolskaya Pravda, Vasya has no trouble lifting 175

Does your dog have problems? Douglas Appleton leather couch he used as a bed. bs, or 60 the ion times.

who claims to be the world's only canine psychiatrist, will solve them for you,

It's all a matter of how you dogs just by picking out those recently treat them, he said. Dogs only which are anti-social." ret neurotic If their owners drive them that way.

Appleton rung 蔬 thriving hsiness exporting dogs to the Uelled States and hiring them out as movie actors. Ôn

the side, he also psycho-analyses dors who find he cares of the world too much for them.

Own Neuroses

The main trouble with dogs, be eald, is OWN.LIS Owner transfer their own neurosis to their pets and pretty soon the dor just become a mess of in- | hibitions,

They will automatically send ⚫ wife or flowers or candy to

or a birthday husband anniversary.

It now is part of the routine booking business, a bank representative

said

United Press,

Good Samaritan?

Appleton should know. Ho

makes ntout £5,000 a year out of dog pyschlotry and sala be could make more if he devoted, more time to it.

Tall and dashingly inchloed. bachelor has been in the business

Copenhagen. Convict Barne Simensen, 27, who escaped wearing only short, nightshirt, remained freeders. today thanks to a good samari- tan who preferred to remain

■r.nonymous

Ja

"Most dogs are basically un- complicated creaturca," he said.

The trouble

that their owners develop certain anti- socint habits and transfer to the dogs.

on

the

B5

Baki,

KEPT GROWING

Born during the war, Vasya Have his parents trouble be cause he grew so fast, they couldn't keep him in shirts. When he was five months old, "he began to grow larger by the hour, not by the day.” And he outgrew his shirts weekly.

HER FORTUNE Oncia's cheeling effects of the recluse who died

Identified him Mahmoud Haji Abdul who came to Britain from Iran I 1023 and established a cot- on-cxporting business in Lon- son and Manchester. They said his wife, daughter of a wealthy them fronian landowner, died a year

uter and left him her fortune.

The newspaper said the boy Baki came to Blackpool 14

has never been kick in his life. "If I have a woman come to

УСАГО ago, and lived in sec- me to tell me that her dogulon in the small flat where He looks like a good bet for doesn't like whito Pekineso X ho spent his time munching the 1900 Sovjat Olympic always ask her it SHE kes pears and melons and timing Weightlifting Leam United them. Nine times out of her ten through the pages of his thou-Press. she doesn't and her hostility is sands of book. communicated to the dogs,”

Appleton gets most of his cod-landlord, one of the few people For The Birds

-advertise-

tacts from discreet ments in the London Times and other newspapers. Most owners of neurotic dogs, he said, quite convinced that no other dogs have problems,

Short Tempered

Bre

"He was a most courtly- mannered, intelligent man," his who knew Baki, told reporters,

London. NEW NOTES

The Croelhowell town "He always pald me his rent counell has threatened to viet lu brand new notes--because be from one of its houses would not touch diriy ones."

who dug a hole in the kitsben went through his floor, filled it with water and Omcials papers and opened battered used it us a pool for keeping- sulicases in the flat after he ducks. died..

mous- "I never come right out and Appleton say I'm a

canine sort of

They reported they found The man, an unnamed build- worth ផង estimated er's labourer, also keeps his only paychiatrist," he said. "I always shares five of his 47 years. After war say Himculi dogs trained in my £40,000 in the bags and bank-coat in the bathroom and hub- service as a Royal Air Force advertisements.

deposita don't booth showing

of bish in People

the lander--United pliot he went into engineering like to think that their dogs are £100,000 in drawers in a totter-Press.

ing bureau-United Press. before discovering that natural-different from other peoples." ly enough the love of dogs out-

Appleton says he always tells weighed his love of steel gir

the owners to behave differently

Amsterdam.

London. they want their dogs to im- After letting themselves down

A court rejected a woman's prove.

a trapdoor in on adjoining demand that a dog be destroyed

because "If a dog is hysterical I toil | House, hacking a way through a

it bit her, after she to bo 10 thick wali and drilling and banged the lid of a garbage can the owner emotional," he said,

sawing their way through the near it. "If a dog snaps at everyone floor of a textfie shop in

Grolley Hose it's because its owner la short Amsterdam, two burglare" diaw tempered. As for dogs who stay covered that the safe was go ruled; "Each had to us the register www method of annoyance available,” the desp out all night-they speak for and

United Press themselves.”—United Press. empty...United Press.

"I don't keep a dog as a pet," he said. "In business you can't afford to

get too renumental over one particular animal.

A man on his way home fruža a party gave Elmonsen his cost because, he said, be thought the

" pleked up psychiatry on cscape was just a little bit the alde, just watching the way Intoxicated as i was myself."all the dogs in my kennels be United Press,

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