Ira relished telling the story that Fred Astaire took him aside and said he knew what a babbitt was, but what was a bromide?

The Singhalese dialect seems to have sprung from the Pali language, while the Malabars speak the entirely dissimilar Tamil language.

There were no fixed targets, no objectives, no highways to take—it was patrol and repatrol, search and destroy.

The VVater of theſe is like to that of Baden in Auſtria; it leaves a vvhite Sediment upon the Moſs and places it vvaſheth, and tinctureth metals black: […]