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'I was wondering if we couldn't get a little more sail on her. Only I can't give you his fierce Square-head tang. 'How about the tops? he suggested. "I was so sleepy I didn't care, and I told him so. 'All right, he says, 'but I thought I might shake out one of them tops. Then I heard him blow at something outside. 'Scat, you ! Then: 'This cat's going to set me crazy, Mr.
It became known that this young officer, while instructing his men, had insulted the French flag and had called the Alsatian recruits Wackes, a nick-name meaning "square-head," and frequently used by the people of Alsace-Lorraine in a jocular way, but hotly resented by them if used towards them by others.
Jan had a good many bills with him that evening his month's wages; and seeing it was the fashion round there to show your money when you paid for anything, why, he'd show them even if he was a square-head that he could carry a wad too. "Say, cap, but yuh must be drawin' down good coin?" "Oh, a boss ship-carpenter gets pretty good wages." And with one splendid sweep Jan emptied his glass.
Just put her on a reach, you know, and she carries it off pretty well " "I know," I nodded. "Well, we mugged up about seven o'clock. There was a good deal of canned stuff in the galley, and Björnsen wasn't a bad hand with a kettle a thoroughgoing Square-head he was tall and lean and yellow-haired, with little fat, round cheeks and a white mustache. Not a bad chap at all.
The old "square-head" knew that he was fooled, that some one had given them warning, and he snarled like a dog. I was standing beside the door because we were supposed to freeze whenever or wherever he appeared. He must have blamed me for warning the boys, for he whipped out his short sword, and wheeling quickly made a slash at me.
Lawlor, struggling still to re-establish himself in the eyes of Bard as the real William Drew, seized the opportunity to exert a show of authority. He smashed his big fist on the table. "Jansen!" he roared. "Eh?" grunted the Swede. "Where was you raised?" "Me?" "You, square-head." "Elvaruheimarstadhaven." "Are you sneezin' or talkin' English?" Jansen, irritated, bellowed: "Elvaruheimarstadhaven!
It was against the rules to smoke in the bunkhouse and half the time we were not allowed in the yard, so of course we broke the rule and smoked, only some one always stayed on guard and gave warning if they saw a "square-head" coming. Well, this day I was on guard when I saw our friend coming on the run.
It is so, I am pained to say, with very many of us. I have a half-bed in a little street, with a man who is a good fellow, considering he is a square-head—a German. The red tiles of my staircase are very clean, and slippery with beeswax. My landlord rents a portion of the third floor of the house, and under-lets it fearfully.
The probable origin of the term, however, lies in the Parisian slang word "caboche," meaning an ugly head. This became shortened to "Boche," and was applied to foreigners of Germanic origin, in exactly the way that the American-born laborer applies the contemptuous term "square-head" to his competitors from northern Europe.
"Just the same, Skipper. He counts up to five, and knows more than five when it is more than five, though he don't know the figures by name after five." "Oh, Hanson!" Captain Jorgensen bellowed across the bar-room to the cook of the Howard. "Hey, you square-head! Come and have a drink!" Hanson came over and pulled up a chair. "I pay for the drinks," said the captain; "but you order, Daughtry.
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