New Words Self-Defined
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ISBN13: 9780217732369
Paperback|9780217732369
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CAFARD The war seems to have made of the average soldier a philosopher and a fatalist, who jests at danger and radiates cheerfulness, but there are occasions when he does not live up to this part. One of them is when, on leave from the trenches, he reaches the last day of his holiday and must return to the front. Then he loses his smile and his banter and in soldier slang has the cafard. Literally, the word means cockroach.? Arthur H. Warner, New York Times, Oct. 7, 1917. CAHENSLYISM One of the most interesting chapters in the book Ten Years Near the German Frontier by Maurice Francis Egan] is The Religious Propaganda. The Kaiser looked on the late Archbishop Ireland of Minneapolis as an enemy of Germany because that eminent prelate had opposed the movement known as Cahenslyism. It was the aim of Peter Paul Cahensly to put the English language in the background in teaching religion to German subjects in America.?New York Times Book Review, March 2, 1919. The success of Archbishop Ireland, who led the fight against Cahenslyism, as the movement to Germanize the parochial schools was called, throws a side-light on the present.?Literary Digest, Oct. 19, 1918. CAMION Besides carrying the gas on the flat cars, motor trucks or camions as they are now called throughout the Allied army, there are also generation stations situated behind the lines.?Electrical Experimenter, Nov., 1918. Thence through the dusk you dimly see ambulances flit past; or camions rumbling heavily, like your own, some empty, others bearing wounded on stretchers arranged crosswise.?Stories of Americans in the World War (1918), p. 36. CAMOUFLAGE There's a new word in the English language?and by that I mean the corrupt dialect of our mother tongue used in the British Isles, not the ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217732369 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217732364 |
| Weight | 0.45 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.31 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 132 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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