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Hebdomadal The writer Max Beerbohm wrote in 1930 that his period as the drama critic of the Saturday Review between 1898 and 1910 (he got the job on the recommendation of his predecessor, George Bernard Shaw) was like walking ...[Read the whole piece]
Lump it Or, in more pithy vein, like it or lump it. Lump in this case isn’t the common one for an irregular compact mass of something, such as a lump of coal, an obscure word dating from about 1300. Our lump is even more obscure ...
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Friend and pitcher A search through old books and newspapers has turned up more than enough examples to show that friend and pitcher was quite widely known and used from the late eighteenth century on and even survived until ...[Read the whole piece]
The next website update
The next update to this site is due on 3 November. You should then be able to read about the curious and rather
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