The Sunday Joint Mr. W. S. Morrison, British Minister of Food, have carefully studied and evaluated the m-before he eat ration plan, which wen monday. Probably running through his saind as he considered the nation's music hall sony of the extraordinary culinary adventures of this versal ppleee of meat before reaches completed towing Sumas riy, cold on Mon day, Tuesday and Wednesday, 100, we turn it into Trish stow." With this thought in mind, rationing was not introduced until Monday, and like the: storms which traditionally confounded the country's enemies in past. centuries, the Sunday joint may also play its part for the London message published on another pare states that no reaction is immediately available until Inst Sunday's joint has been reduced bone and a skewer. Then the coupon system for meat rations may be accurately assessed, Butchers fre said to he of the opinion that housewives may serve unrationed meats and fish during the ition may be utilized in different. ways throughout the week recording to the size of the joint and the skill of the housewife in re~ ducing it to its utmost possible nutritive point may not be so nowadays but in the days of four youth the sight of the bone in some sort of dish with suet dumplings on Friday was not 8 tarily In families where the thrifty housewife had her "stock pot" working during the week, This about constitutes a record as far as the longevity of the joint goes, but in spite of the vvogtue for prepared dishes and tinned foods which fare cnleutated to undermine the creative instinct of the English housewife, Mr. Morrison wisely Tooks alread, confident that the country will still have the Sunday Joint, War-Time Slang Every war produces Its slang coined" by men who interpret their surroundings in much more vivid terms than In civilian Ife. The last war Produced an extensive vocabulary, of largely 4 sanguinary nature, but in those branches. of the services requiring a technical vocabulary, such as the Royal Air Fores, great inventive ability was shown. But like all things, language And slang change, and the pilot of the last war would imagine himself in an utterly. strange land of strone people were he to listen, to some of the slang terms used nowadays because the Air Force vocabulary evolved during the last war has gone into history. A new one rapidly being invented and codified. No lon= Kor does the enterprising airman '"win" a wanted article; he "organised." When supplies have been arranged, those supplies have. been "laid on." If an airman. is "fed up" he Is "browned off" When something displeases "a poor view" is taken of it. Something badly done Ix"a black." A job properly completed fs "but toned up," andthe correct method of doing anything is "the right drill" A few of the exe pressions from Royal Flying Corps days. sur-Vive and, have grown dignified with years. stick", "hedge-hopping", "stall"
"celling" are no longer regarded as slang Some newer ones are "Tan" for. airscrew, formerly. "the prop"; "stationmaster" for the Commanding Officer; and "spun-in® for a bad mistake. To "pancake" an alreratt is now to Nerack down on the deck". This calls for "lear ing off a strip", otherwise a reprimand. A "blonde job", surprisingly, is a young woman with tale balk.
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