The Aurist and the American
From the Pall Mall Gazette, Friday 22 February 1889: A distinguished “aurist” was once rather amusingly “done” by an enterprising American, who bounced into his room one morning, exclaiming, in...
View ArticleWord of the Day: Quacksalver \KWAK-sal-ver\ (noun)
quacksalver \KWAK-sal-ver\, noun: 1. a charlatan. 2. a quack doctor. And there was that quacksalver Mellowes again, with his pernicious theory that consumption was caused by an excess of oxygen. –...
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