[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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