ART FROM THE 1937 EDITION OF THE TOURING GAME

 Micki and I love to play this Parker Brothers game, and I love the 1937 illustrations!

ONE MILE

 

 

THREE MILES

 

15 MILES

 

 

30 MILES

 

CITY LIMITS

 

 

COLLISION

 

COUNTRY

 

 

GASOLINE

 

GO

 

 

HAULED IN

 

OUT OF GASOLINE

 

 

PUNCTURE

 

 

 

 

FUN WORDS

 

These are real words from the 1927 New Century Dictionary of the English Language.  I try here to make the pronunciations simple, and shorten the definitions.  I haven't checked to see if they're in modern dictionaries, but it doesn't matter.  They're real words, and if we use them, they're modern.

 

abecedarium (A-b-c-DARE-ee-um) n.: An a-b-c book; a primer.

aberglaube (AH-ber-GLAU-bee) n.: Belief beyond what is justified by knowledge; superstition.

ablins (AH-blinz) adv.: Possibly; perhaps.

absquatulate (ab-SKWOT-yoo-late) v.: To run off; decamp.

agelast (AJ-eh-last) n.: One who never laughs.

agrestic (ah-GRES-tik) adj.: Rural; rustic.

allwhere (ALL-ware) adv.: Everywhere.

ambry (AM-bree) n.: A closet, cupboard, or locker.

anserous (AN-ser-us) adj.: Goose-like; stupid; silly.

backfisch (BACK-fish) n.: A young girl; a half-grown school-girl.

bally (BAL-ee) adj.: A word of indefinite meaning used humorously or for emphasis in place of some adjective or more definite (possibly profane) signification.

ballyhoo (bal-ee-HOO) n.: A barker at the door of a show, shop, etc.

balm-cricket (BOM-KRIK-et) n.: The cicada.

bibliomania (BIB-lee-oh-MAIN-ee-uh) n.: A mania for collecting books.

blowy (BLO-ee) adj.: Windy.

bomb-plane (BOM-plain) n.: An airplane for dropping bombs.

brava (BRAH-vuh) n.: A feminine form corresponding to bravo: A daring villain; a murderous bully; a professional assassin.

Brobdingnagian (brob-ding-NAG-ee-an) n.: A giant; a gigantic person.

bugbear (BUG-bair) n.: An imaginary being supposed to devour naughty children; anything arousing terror, esp. groundless terror.

bunkum (BUNG-kum) n.: Speech-making intended merely to please political constituents; insincere talk; claptrap; humbug.

camelry (CAM-el-ree) n.: Soldiers mounted on camels.

cark (cark) n.: A load; also, care, trouble, or worry.

cit (sit) n.: An inhabitant of a city, or a city person.

clanjamfry (clan-JAM-fry) n.: A set of worthless persons.

clapperclaw (KLAP-er-claw) v.: To claw or scratch with the hand and nails; fight with tooth and nail.

cloop (kloop) n.: The sound made when a cork is drawn from a bottle; any similar sound.

cock-a-hoop (kock-a-HOOP) adv. and adj.: In a state of unrestrained joy or exultation.

cummer (KUHM-er) n.: A godmother; a female companion; a woman; a girl or lass; also, a witch.

dehort (de-HORT) v.: To seek to dissuade; also, to counsel against.

dido (DIE-doh) n.: A prank; an antic; a disorderly performance.

dowf (douf) adj.: Dull; flat; spiritless; stupid; melancholy; dismal.

doxy (DOK-see) n.: A mistress or paramour; a prostitute.

dragonet (DRAG-on-et) n.: A little or young dragon. 

dunt (dunt) n.: A hard blow making a dull sound; a wound from such a blow; a beat of the heart.

dup (dup) v.: To raise the latch of; open (a door or gate).

ersatz (er-ZATS) n.: A substitute.

factotum (fak-TOE-tum) n.: A busybody; also, one employed to do all kinds of work for another.

fash (fash) v.: To annoy or be annoyed; trouble.  n.: Trouble; also, a troublesome person or thing.

faugh (fah) interj.: An exclamation of disgust.

fillip (FILL-ip) v.: To strike with the nail of a finger snapped from the end of the thumb.

flat-nosed (FLAT-nozd) adj.: Having a flat nose.

flibbertigibbet (FLIB-er-tee-JIB-et) n.: A chattering or flighty person: commonly applied to a woman.

flittermouse (FLIT-er-mous) n.: A bat.

flump (flump) v.: To plump down suddenly or heavily; flop.

gaberlunzie (gab-er-LUNZ-ee) n.: A beggar; a mendicant. 

gadzooks (GAD-ZOOKS) interj.: An emphatic expletive of indefinite meaning.

goluptious (go-LUP-shuss) adj.: Delicious; delightful. 

goodman (GOOD-man) n.: The master of a household; also, a husband.

goodwife (GOOD-wife) n.: The mistress of a household; also, a title of respect for a woman.

gump (gump) n.: A foolish person; a dolt.

habiliment (ha-BILL-i-ment) n.: Dress; attire; garb; pl., clothes or garments.

hempy (HEM-pee) adj.: Deserving of the hangman's rope; liable to be hanged.

jack-leg (JAK-leg) n.: A lawyer or other professional man who employs questionable or dishonest practices.

landloper (LAND-LO-per) n.: One who wanders about the country; a vagabond.

lenity (LEN-it-ee) n.: The quality or fact of being mild or gentle, as toward others; clemency; mercifulness; lenience. 

lickerish (LICK-er-ish) adj.: Eager for choice food or dainty fare, as a person, the palate, etc.; also, choice, dainty, or tempting, as food or drink.

looby (LOO-bee) n.: An awkward, clownish fellow; a lout.

lovelily (LUV-lil-ee) adv.: In a lovely manner.

metewand (MEET-wahnd) n.: A measuring-stick or yardstick.

mim (mim) adj.: Primly silent, quiet, or restrained; affectedly modest; prim; demure.

mirific (my-RIF-ik) adj.: Causing wonder; wonderful; marvelous.

mordacious (mor-DAY-shus) adj.: Biting; given to biting.

mugwump (MUG-wump) n.: A great man; one who affects superiority, esp. in political principles.

muliebrity (moo-lih-EBB-rit-ee) n.: Womanly nature or qualities; womanhood.

multipara (mull-TIP-ara) n.: A woman who has borne two or more children.

neat-handed (NEET-HAN-ded) adj.: Neat or dexterous in the use of the hands; deft.

nidnod (NID-nod) v.: To nod repeatedly; keep nodding.

ophidism (OFF-id-izm) n.: Poisoning by snake venom.

orexis (oh-REK-sis) n.: Appetite; desire.

otherwhere (UH-ther-wair) adv.: Elsewhere.

pah (pah) interj.: An exclamation of disgust.

phiz (fiz) n.: The face; the countenance.

polyhistor (polly-HIS-tor) n.: A person of great or varied learning.

pome (poam) n.: An apple.

pompom (POM-pom) n.: A colloquial name for a machine-gun of large caliber. 

princock (PRIN-cock) n.: A pert or conceited young fellow.

prog (prog) v.: To search or prowl about, as for plunder or food; forage; also, to go about begging. 

reechy (REE-chee) adj.: Smoky; dirty; also, rancid.

seaware (SEE-wair) n.: Seaweed.

seawolf (SEE-wulf) n.: A pirate; also, a privateering vessel.

shoon (shoon) n.: Plural of shoe.

spondulix (spon-DOO-lix) n.: Money; cash; funds.

Spoonerism (SPOON-er-izm) n.: A slip of the tongue whereby initial or other sounds of words in a phrase are accidentally transposed, as in 'our queer old dean' for 'our dear old queen.'

sumph (sumf) n.: A stupid person; a blockhead; a simpleton; also, a surly person.

temulent (TEM-yoo-lent) adj.: Drunken; intoxicated; proceeding from drink.

teratogenesis (TER-ah-to-JEN-eh-sis) n.: In biol., the production or formation of monsters.

teratoid (TER-a-toid) adj.: In biol., resembling a monster.

thaumaturge (THAUM-a-turj) n.: A worker of wonders or miracles; a wonder-worker.

threap (threep) v.: To reproach or scold.

tilly-vally (TIL-ee-VAL-ee) interj.: Nonsense! bosh!

trappy (TRAP-ee) adj.: Of the nature of a trap; treacherous; tricky.

woodenhead (WOOD-en-hed) n.: A blockhead; a dull or stupid person.

yapp (yap) adj.: Designating or pertaining to a style of bookbinding in limp leather or the like with projecting flaps overlapping the edges of the pages: used esp. on Bibles.

yegg (yeg) n.: A criminal, esp. of the roving or tramp class, who makes a practice of breaking into and robbing safes.

 

 

 

 

ALPHABET OF APOTHEGMS

 

From the Illustrated Catholic Family Almanac in the mid 1800s:
ALPHABET OF APOTHEGMS
 

Avoid an angry man for awhile, a malicious one for ever.
Be attentive to the end as well as to the beginning.
Cleanliness is the elegance of the poor.
Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves.
Endeavor to be what you would appear to be.
Fetters, though made of gold, are fetters still.
Great minds have wills; others, only wishes.
He is idle who might be better employed.
If you sow iniquity, you must reap misery.
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
Knowledge is the treasure of the mind.
Laziness begins in cobwebs, and ends in iron chains.
Make good use of time, if you love eternity.
Neither believe rashly nor reject obstinately.
One eye-witness is better than ten hearsays.
Poverty wants some; luxury, many; avarice, all things.
Quick believers need broad shoulders.
Reckless youth makes rueful age.
Speak not at all, rather than speak ill.
The key of the day and the lock of the night is prayer.
Unmerited honors never wear well.
Virtue that parleys is near a surrender.
Write injuries in dust, but kindnesses in marble.
Youth seeks renown; old age, repose.
Zeal in a good cause is commendable.

 

 

 

 

A COLLIE'S 26-DAY VIGIL

 From QUICK News Weekly, August 4, 1952:

 

 

 

 

THE REAL BOOK CLUB

 

       In the 1950s I belonged to the Real Book Club.  Each month Garden City Books in Garden City, New York, would send the members a new book.  I never knew what subject was coming next; it was an exciting surprise; and whatever it was would become my chief interest for a month as I perused the book's pages.  

       Just now searching the internet I see that it might be possible for a collector to obtain every one of the 63 books in the series, but as of now I have only 12 of them, and enjoy reading them now as much as I did seventy years ago  In the Lund Library we have The Real Book about Airplanes, The Real Book about Amazing Animals, The Real Book about Baseball, The Real Book about Dogs, The Real Book about Easy Music-Making, The Real Book of Games, The Real Book of Jokes, The Real Book about Our National Parks, The Real Book about Pets and How to Care for Them, The Real Book about Pirates, The Real Book about Prehistoric Life, and The Real Book of Science Experiments.

       If you'd like to collect them, or just remember them, here's a list of them all: 

The Real Book about Abraham Lincoln
The Real Book about Airplanes
The Real Book about Alaska
The Real Book about Amazing Animals
The Real Book about Amazing Birds
The Real Book about Amazing Scientific Facts
The Real Book about American Tall Tales
The Real Book about Andrew Jackson
The Real Book about the Antarctic
The Real Book about Armed Forces
The Real Book about Baseball
The Real Book about Benjamin Franklin
The Real Book about Buffalo Bill
The Real Book about Bugs, Insects and Such
The Real Book about Camping
The Real Book about Canada
The Real Book about Christopher Columbus
The Real Book about Cowboys
The Real Book about Crime Detection
The Real Book about Daniel Boone
The Real Book about Dogs
The Real Book about Easy Music-Making
The Real Book about Electronics
The Real Book about Explorers
The Real Book about Famous Battles
The Real Book about Farms
The Real Book about Games
The Real Book about George Washington
The Real Book about Gold
The Real Book about Great American Journeys
The Real Book about Historic Places of America
The Real Book about Horses
The Real Book about Indians
The Real Book about Inventions
The Real Book of Jokes
The Real Book about Journalism
The Real Book about Magic
The Real Book about Making Dolls and Doll Clothes
The Real Book about Mountain Climbing
The Real Book about the Mounties
The Real Book about Our National Capital
The Real Book about Our National Parks
The Real Book about Pets
The Real Book about Photography
The Real Book about Pirates
The Real Book about Prehistoric Life
The Real Book about Real Crafts
The Real Book about Rivers
The Real Book about Robots and Thinking Machines
The Real Book of Science Experiments
The Real Book about the Sea
The Real Book about Ships
The Real Book about Space Travel
The Real Book about Spies
The Real Book about Sports
The Real Book about Stars
The Real Book about Submarines
The Real Book about the Texas Rangers
The Real Book about Trains
The Real Book about Treasure Hunting
The Real Book about the Weather
The Real Book about Whales and Whaling
The Real Book about the Wild West