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Wednesday, March 10th, 2021
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| 7:36p | Scum : etymology scum Language English Alternative forms skum (obsolete) Etymology From Middle English scum, scome, skum, skome, scumme, from Middle Dutch schūme (“foam”), from Proto-Germanic *skūmaz (“froth, foam”), from Proto-Indo-European *skew- (“to cover, conceal”). Cognate with Dutch schuim (“foam”), German Schaum (“foam”), Danish and Swedish skum (“foam”). Compare also French écume (“scum”), Italian schiuma (“foam”), Walloon schome (“scum, foam”), Lithuanian šamas (“catfish”) and skanus (“tasty”) from the same Germanic source. Related to skim. |
| 8:47p | Make your company great again!  ...An' I seed her first a-smokin' of a whackin' white cheroot, An' a-wastin' Chinese kisses on an 'eathen idol's foot: Bloomin' idol made o'mud -- Wot they called the Great Don Trump -- Plucky lot she cared for idols when I kissed 'er where she stud! Make your company great again... |
| 11:09p | От Блумсбери до Беломорканала: an undiminished class-traitor who had lived a busy and a happy life В 1935 году в Америке и Англии вышел сокращённый перевод книги «Беломорско-Балтийский канал имени Сталина: История строительства, 1931—1934 гг.», выполненный в Москве английской писательницей-социалисткой Амабель Вильямс-Эллис (Amabel Williams-Ellis), присутствовавшей на XVII съезде и выступившей на нём с речью. Издание сопровождалось предисловием переводчицы, представляющим англоязычным читателям книгу с позиции советских органов госбезопасности. Belomor: An Account of the Construction of the New Canal Between the White Sea and the Baltic Sea / M. Gorky; L. Averbakh; S. Firin; transl. by A. Williams-Ellis. — Westport, Conn: Hyperion Press, 1977. — 344 p.    Amabel Williams-Ellis (née Mary Annabel Nassau Strachey; 10 May 1894 – 27 August 1984) was an English writer, critic, and early member of the Bloomsbury Group. As well as her own writings, Williams-Ellis was a prolific editor, translator, and anthologist, compiling collections of fairy stories, folk tales, and science fiction. Annabel Nassau Strachey was born at Newlands Corner, near Guildford, Surrey, to journalist and newspaper proprietor John Strachey and Amy (née Simpson). Her cousin was Lytton Strachey, and her childhood described as 'glittering and comfortable'. During World War I, Amabel served as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse, which partly inspired an increasing interest in science and anatomy. This led in turn to her scientific writings for children, particularly on notable discoveries and responses to the typical inquiries of children. Between 1922-23, she was literary editor of The Spectator. Attracted to socialism, Amabel Williams-Ellis described herself as a 'class traitor'. Amabel Williams-Ellis died on 27 August 1984, at the age of 90. Shortly before her death, she published a memoir: All Stracheys Are Cousins. This showed, wrote The Times, that she was "an undiminished optimist who had lived a busy and a happy life, and enjoyed her second living of it on the page" |
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