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The first volume of the diction ary, edited by Frederic G. Cassidy, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin and head of its DARE Institute, recently was published by . . . _ ill Harvard University Press and wil soon be in bookstores. For $49.95, you get 903 pages covering “a” through “c.” This volume, and four more ex pected over the next several years, are the results of the first compila tion of the quaint, funny, sad, melo dious and vulgar strains in American speech. “You get a sense sometimes that people were trying to outdo each other in coming up with colorful ex pressions,” Cassidy, 77, said. different names. There is the lan guage of children’s games, foreign phrases, illnesses and natural phe nomena. from local publications by theAraa 1, foi There are euphemisms, such as calling an illegitimate child a “catch colt” in parts of the Northwest or warning a woman in the South that her slip is showing by saying her “cotton is low.” ican Dialect Society, founded 1889. That work was expanded li Cassidy, whose assistants conduct 1,847-question surveys in communities from 1965 to 1970. The ■ project got started in eamc Cassidy began badeerineti Ctiurch i life on U society to make good on its promj to publish such a dictionary. Pool Jact Larg Food, for example, spawned ex pressions such as “Cape Cod turkey” for codfish, “Albany beef’ for stur geon, “Connecticut River pork” for shad, “Alaska turkey” for salmon and “Arkansas T-bone” for bacon. There are scores of local names for fauna and flora, such as the black-eyed Susan which yielded 50 There are etymologies. “Cake walk” or “piece of cake,” meaning something easy, has its roots in black dance contests that featured a cake as first prize. The dictionary also captured words fading from the language. Ex amples include “old chestnuts,” to Northeasterners something that is worn out by use. "I kept asking when it wasgoii to be done,” he said. ‘T hey askedn how to do it. I wrote an artidci them on how 1 would do it. ,.j then found myself appointed i tor.” Mon.-S The dictionary’s foundation is the more than 40,000 expressions culled That was 1963, and he and ft lessor Audrey R. Duckert of il University of Massachusetts setT work. The final volume will indudeo densations of the more than 21 lion responses to the questionnairtl 300 Franciscan Sisters make altar bread fliciency apartmt 50. deposit ‘250 Inly single. Associated Press LITTLE FALLS, Minn. — In a small room, off the corner of the cafeteria at St. Francis Con vent, six members of the Franciscan Sisters carry on a tradition that was started nearly a century ago. Using the simplest of ingredients — flour and water — they make altar bread. For Catholics, the thin, crisp wafers will become the “Body of Christ” once they’re blessed at a church. What may look like a small operation is, in fact, a $3.5 million business for the Franciscans. The tiny bakery produces about 20,000 Communion wafers a day. Since its beginning in the late 1800s, members of the Little Falls Franciscan community have been rising early in the morning and heading for the bakery to make sure that the Communion wafers are fresh. According to Sister Anne Furstahl, head baker and assistant administrator at the convent, altar bread is mailed to 150 locations in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Besides regular shipments to Catholic parishes, the Franciscans also ship altar bread to three Episcopalian and five Lutheran churches. Making flour and water into altar bread begins at the mixer where the two ingredients are com bined into a thin slurry. The Catholic church dic tates that only these two ingredients be used in the wafers. After the batter is thoroughly mixed and left to thicken slightly, two sisters ladle two scoops of the mixture onto hot griddles. Another griddle sejuishes the batter fiat and an automatic timer clicks off 60 seconds as the women clean the edges of overflow batter. Out of the presser come shiny sheets of cooked batter barely one-sixteenth-inch thick. After steaming in specially designed cupboards for up to six hours to soften the crisp sheets, it is time for the cutting. While cooking, the sheets have been imprinted with 3-inch circles. These are the hosts that will be used by priests during the Communion sacra ment. Each contains a neatly embossed religious symbol. There is an automatic cutter, which punches out eight small hosts with each stroke of its With 104 hosts to a sheet, the numbers qi add up. Between 18,000 and 20,000 hosts, w will be distributed to parishioners, are cut the automatic cutter each day. After the baking is completed there are hosts to be counted and wrapped, small hosts be packaged by weight, labels to be add and scraps to be whisked away in preparation another day. upl«. 696-2:K)H IR’i. 1.5 bath, cl rcslauninls nn duplex, $2t Doeciioni. 822-2 icious room in i juiblc, Liichci Schult '81 Sbrm.,: ir lease. Awumabl In its early years, when the Franciscan Mod I house began making altar bread, the hostswl distributed strictly on a donation basis, Sd I Anne said. But the costly special equipmenti I the escalating cost of electricity forced thesisa I to begin charging for the hosts several yearsaj I Small white hosts now cost $7 a thousand. Wli I wheat is sold for S8 a thousand. Sister Anne estimates that there are about I bakeries in the United States which maketht I tar bread for shipment all over the world. Bull I sisters say they are happy being a small ope I tion. Collector produces key chains with scorpions preserved in resin Associated Press SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Aided by a black light, Darwin “Tex” Al ldredge prowls the desert, tweezers and tongs in hand, looking under brittle bushes and between the twigs of mesquite. He’s collecting scorpions. Or black widow spiders. Or tarantulas. If he is quick enough, and all con ditions are right — such as a breeze blowing and no moonlight — he can gather between 100 and 250 of the fast-moving arachnids each night. Embedding them in resin, he turns them into paper weights, belt buckles, bola ties and key chains. Alldredge, 72, makes a nightly routine of Finding a spot in the de sert to hunt the elusive scorpions from which he makes these items. He does not hunt black widows nor tarantulas at the same time nor in the same location. The collector, who takes only Sat urday night off, wears a heavy pair of boots, well-worn blue jeans, an old short-sleeved shirt, and baseball cap. He attaches to his waist a gallon sized plastic milk bottle which has the top cut out. He hand-carries a black light that is hooked up to a mo torcycle battery. The battery is placed in a basket and carried over one shoulder. This night he was looking for small-to medium-sized scorpions. The big ones are left undisturbed to scamper back into their holes. Off he goes into the desert, usually alone, while his wife, Thelma, who is handicapped as the result of a car accident, sits and waits in the family four-wheel-drive vehi cle. He admits to having been lost at times. So before leaving home base, he puts a bright bug light on top of the jeep so that he will be able to find his way back from the rugged desert ravines. “If a person got stung, it would only be like a wasp sting,” he said. “I’ve only been stung three or four times in the past six years.” He explained that the bark scor pion is the only poisonous scorpion of the 11 varieties in Arizona. It is found around the bark of dead trees, such as saguaro cactus, and particularly in the Horseshoe Dam area. “They are the bad dudes,” he added. “If you get stung by one of them you’ll know it. They can kill a child. “Now what you’re looking for is a white speck, like a snowball,” Al ldredge said while he zigzagged through the brush in the cool night. “You’re not looking for something with a shape. There’s one, see what it looks like?” What Alldredge was shining his light on had a bright fluorescent quality and appeared as a large white object under the light. Ap proaching closer, one could make out the segmented body and arched tail, which went up as the scorpion scurried toward Alldredge. “For all intents and purposes scor- ions are blind,” he said. “They now someone 1 is near because the earth is shaking from our walking. They are an eating machine and out looking for gnats, out they’ll eat any thing. And they don’t get far from their dens.”. Alldredge spotted a small white object that looked like a piece of string and quickly stooped down to pluck the scorpion before it could scamper away. “I need a lot of the small ones,” he said. “I call them prairie dogs when they go into their holes. I caught 224 the other night when I got lost. It took me 30 minutes to find the car.” Alldredge sorts the scorpions by size and places them in alcohol, which kills and preserves them. After this process is complete, he stretches them out to dry on boards before embedding them in resin. “The alcohol replaces the water in their body and then I stretch them out on the boards,” he said. “The hardest part is getting them to spread out.” For eight years Alldredge has been hunting scorpions out in the desert and plucking black widows from alley fences around Scottsdale. He began his hunting as a hobby and it has turned into a cottage business. He and his wife moved to Scottsdale from Illinois because the warm climate gives Thelma Al ldredge relief from the injuries she sustained in the accident. Newlyweds celebrate by crashing cars Associated Press WESTBORO, Mass. - Sofl couples drink champagne dance when they tie the kw Frances McLain and Kevin lii say celebrated by smashing their cars. mg 4,000 fans at Westboro Speed* ipee Sunday night, just before t Sterling couple took part in ad molition derby, where drivf bang their cars into their nents’ until only one car c move. The groom, a telephone ted nician, drove a black car wiili tuxedo painted on the hood H bride drove a white sedan will lace trim around the hood and bridal veil hanging inside il back windshield. Both cars l) f old rings painted on the If ront tires. The bride, a medical secretafl wore a silver-gray jumpsuit wli the groom was dressed in blai jeans, black running shoes, whi shirt, black leather vest and black bow tie. 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