[8] The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage; London, 1913, p. 9. /To bluff/ has also gone into other languages, notably the Spanish. During the Cuban revolution of March, 1917, the newspapers of Havana, objecting to the dispatches sent out by American correspondents, denounced the latter as /los blofistas/. Meanwhile, /to bluff/ has been shouldered out in the country of its origin, at least temporarily, by a verb borrowed from the French, /to camouflage/. This first appeared in the Spring of 1917. [9] Book iv, ch. iii. The first of the six volumes was published in 1858 and the last in 1865. [10] Words and Their Use, new ed.; New York, 1876, p. 198. [11] Boston, 1918, pp. 1-43. [12] /Green Book Magazine/, Nov., 1913, p. 768. [13] An interesting note on this characteristic is in College Words and Phrases, by Eugene H. Babbitt, /Dialect Notes/, vol. ii, pt. i, p. 11. [14] America's Coming of Age; p. 15. [15] March 26, 1918, pp. 4376-7. [16] Jan. 14, 1918, p. 903. [17] Mr. Campbell, of Kansas, in the House, Jan. 19, 1918, p. 1134. [18] Mr. Hamlin, of Missouri, in the House, Jan. 19, 1918, p. 1154. [19] Mr. Kirby, of Arkansas, in the Senate, Jan. 24, 1918, p. 1291; Mr. Lewis, of Illinois, in the Senate, June 6, 1918, p. 8024. [20] Mr. Weeks of Massachusetts, in the Senate, Jan. 17, 1918, p. 988. [21] Mr. Smith, of South Carolina, in the Senate, Jan. 17, 1918, p. 991. [22] Mr. Borland, of Missouri, in the House, Jan. 29, 1918, p. 1501. [23] May 4, 1917, p. 1853. [24] Mr. Snyder, of New York, Dec. 11, 1917. [25] /Balled-up/ and its verb, /to ball up/, were originally somewhat improper, no doubt on account of the slang significance of /ball/, but of late they have made steady progress toward polite acceptance. [26] After the passage of the first War Revenue Act cigar-boxes began to bear this inscription: "The contents of this box have been /taxed paid/ as cigars of Class B as indicated by the Internal Revenue stamp affixed." Even /tax-paid/, which was later substituted, is obviously better than this clumsy double inflection. [27] Mr. Bankhead, of Alabama, in the Senate, May 14, 1918, p. 6995. [28] /Bust/ seems to be driving out /burst/ completely when used figuratively. Even in a literal sense it creeps into more or less respectable usage. Thus I find "a /busted/ tire" in a speech by Gen. Sherwood, of Ohio, in the House, Jan. 24, 1918. The familiar American derivative, /buster/, as in /Buster Brown/, is unknown to the English. [29] Pp. 133-154. [30] L. Pearsall Smith, in The English Language, p. 29, says that "the differentiation is ... so complicated that it can hardly be mastered by those born in parts of the British Islands in which it has not yet been established"--/e. g./, all of Ireland and most of Scotland.