[Ads-l] Orwellish, 1955

Stephen Goranson goranson at DUKE.EDU
Fri Jan 15 09:35:39 UTC 2021


Eugene Register-Guard [OR; newspapers.com] Sunday March 6, 1955, B1/2:

THE EMERALD is also helping laugh those George Orwellish "Think" signs off the walls. The Emerald paraphrases that sterling lad, A. E. Housman, with:
"Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drimk
For fellows whom it hurts the thimk."

SG

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