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Show acEABruro or "blahx." The frequent use of the word blank to signify well, what each person supplies sup-plies for himself when he reads of a "blankety blank blank fool," leads one to feel a curious shock on coming across the word used In a legitimate sense. For instance, here is the way It spoils the first stanza of Keats' "Hymn to Apollo:" Apol-lo:" And of the golden bow. And of the golden lyre. And of the golden hair. And of the golden fire. Charioteer, Round the patient year. Where where slept thine Ire, When, like a blank Idiot, I put on thy wreath, Portland Oregonian. |