New York, June 28—Hereafter, when they are placing you in a rut across your middle, on a stretcher, and the jolly laughter of the motorist who has just run you down is ringing in your ears, it will be a sign of bad breeding to say “Darn it” to express your emotions.
“This is sheer roadhogism,” you can say, “and that fellow there is nothing less than a motormoron. It is killpeds of his ilk that make the highways of America a menace to life and limb.”
Three nice new words to write in the back of your family dictionary, along with “scofflaw.” They are prize-winning words in a competition held by the Insurance Press, announced in the current number. Bernard Holzer of Richmond, S.C., invented “motormoron.” “Killped” is a suggestion of a 14-year-old boy, Stanley A. Frazier of Gouverneur, N.Y. “Roadhogism,” which is, after all, only about one half of 1 per cent new, comes from J.C. Sellers of Jacksonville, Fla.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, June 28, 1924
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