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4. Woman who is fat, clumsy, and lacks cleanliness; 1900-1930s [173] 5. Cheap room in hotel or bed; 1910s [173] 6. Abrupt change in political policy [173] 7. Seat [174] 8. Hit; knock down; 1910s [173] flophouse. Main article: Flophouse. Cheap transient hotel used by people down on their luck [175] flour lover Girl with too much face powder [149]
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Words coined from the years 1901 to 2000. Most words will be classed by their respective decade they were coined in; this category is only to be used directly on an article if the decade the neologism was coined is uncertain.
2.1 1900s–1950s. 2.2 1960s–1970s. 2.3 1980s. ... Print/export Download as PDF ... a phrase to describe the record number of openly LGBT candidates for office in ...
German Kurrent and its modernized 20th-century school version Sütterlin, the form of handwriting taught in schools and generally used in Germany and Austria until it was banned by the Nazis in 1941, was very different from that used in other European countries. However, it was generally only used for German words.
This is a list of idioms that were recognizable to literate people in the late-19th century, and have become unfamiliar since.. As the article list of idioms in the English language notes, a list of idioms can be useful, since the meaning of an idiom cannot be deduced by knowing the meaning of its constituent words.
The average length of a telegram in the 1900s in the US was 11.93 words; more than half of the messages were 10 words or fewer. [5] According to another study, the mean length of the telegrams sent in the UK before 1950 was 14.6 words or 78.8 characters. [6] For German telegrams, the mean length is 11.5 words or 72.4 characters. [6]
Older Southern American English is a diverse set of English dialects of the Southern United States spoken most widely up until the American Civil War of the 1860s, gradually transforming among its White speakers—possibly first due to postwar economy-driven migrations—up until the mid-20th century. [1]