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After lunch Ruth persuaded me to have a hair cut. The place is run by two Frenchman with sidewhiskers, and is very old-fashioned, being merely a front room of a house with wooden barber chairs and no "facilities". It was the first time I had ever had a barber: cut my hair without using clippers; shave behind the ears without even moistening it; use a shop with [[underlined]] no [[/underlined]] sterilizing facilities or water at hand; charge only 24 cents; brush away the hair- ends with a small stiff-haired brush like a tooth-brush; put on a dressing (Bay-Rum) free of charge.!
[[margin]] IX-9-36 [[/margin]] Ruth's Birthday.I didn't remember it when we got up. Shame!  After breakfast I went to town to make reservations for the Nerissa at Brysons. They assured me that the boat would not be crowded, and said it is a daylight trip to St. Kitts (via Montserrat). I stopped at the Post Office and bought Ruth one of the £1 Leeward island stamps. I didn't have any other gift and thought there was little chance of getting anything here. It is a large size stamp and quite handsome.
I did little else all day, but Ruth's journal records quite a bit of activity.
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[[margin]] IX-10-36 [[/margin]] A rainy day. This was none too good an excuse for doing nothing all day. Ruth brought from the library a book suggested by Mr. Frost. It is "What a Word" by A.P. Herbert - editor of Punch. It is part of a war on the misuses of good words and the uses of bad words. The following are  declared "treason" under all circumstances: acid test, air-conditioning, air-minded, archeologi[[overwritten]]z [[/overwritten]] se, authoritarian, beautician, bombshell, brochure, calmative, capitalize, circularize, class-consciousness, clôture, commence, crystallized viewpoint, debabelization, debureaucratization, delimitation, deinsectization, deratization, diarize, discussant, disencouraged, donate, elasticate, envisage, endorsation, enthuse, escapee, eventuality, eventuate, eyewear, feminizing, filmization, finalize, God-hungry, hospitalization, hospitalize, ideology, interavailability, interdenominational, inst., issues, knowledgeable, lovelify, majorized, manoeuvrability, marketability, matrimonize, maximise, motivate,^[[insertion]] motorcade, [[/insertion]] negatived, nonchalantly, normalize, obituarism, obligate, oratorize, parasitize, personalize, phenomenal, picturize, plusage, poignant, [[strikethrough]] posit [[/strikethrough]] provisioner, prox., quotaing, reactionaries, recondition, redecontamination, rededication, rendition, roadability,
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