A writer in the London Observer collects many quaint items, among them lately are the following:— "A favourite dish in Berlin restaurants until recently was •Italian salad.' Since Italy joined the Entente Powers 'ltalian salad' has disappeared from the bills of faro, and people now ask for 'Traitors" salad." It tastes so much better under that name. We may consider one more Americanism—a very useful and legitimate one—as acclimatised. "It is up to us," said Mr. Lloyd George in his munitions speech, "to see that it [the German system of trickery] fails." It is not every Cabinet Minister who would be so colloquial; but slang has recently insinuated itself even into blue-books,
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 September 1915, Page 12
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112Page 12 Advertisements Column 2 Taranaki Daily News, 18 September 1915, Page 12
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