POPULAR HABITS.
Ine British public is a conundrum.In its habits'it is as versatile as it is elastic. It will be shocked one day at the merest incident in life, \ and go crazy the next over a, dog-, fight.. The'latest freak is to coin a word known as "swank,'' which is .said to mean, / "side," / "boasting/'. ' 'bragging,''' 'pretence." This has captured the country, and seems : likely to spread over the English-speak-ing world. In New Zealand we shall soon he able, without fear of consequences, to describe how the "swankey" Premier "did 'em brown'' at Wardioptiinus or something else. '
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10161, 10 February 1911, Page 4
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97POPULAR HABITS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10161, 10 February 1911, Page 4
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