Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 21, 1986, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free december 1986 on language William satire who shot John the new York times nobody really cares who shot that be cause who shot John is inherently always used in the sense of a question that the speaker is not about to answer because it involves loathsome Fin unworthy of the fair when Marlin press spokesman for Vic president George was asked about Bush support of the presidents policy to ship arms to he according to the Washington that Bush does not want to discuss the process of who shot John in making the Iran the David quoted the spokesman this is a classic example of the kind of thing for six years that George Bush has never commented in Good times or that derogation concerning blame fixing has been steadily gain ing a 1977 recording by Nathan Page used those words As its and the expression must have been helped along by the who shot promotion of the television drama for the first three months of his wrote the Washington posts Reid about Edward Kennedy quest for the presidency in Kennedy flailed around on a sprawling spec Trum of issues ranging from who to the wiretap provisions of the criminal code old Slang Stuart Berg Flexner finds in his file of old Slang citations that the earliest ones Are around theres a reference in the file to British Royal military academies where men sat around playing who shot the army phrase play who shot John might suggest its origin in a childrens John was a Slang term for a student at the British military which might account for the but this mystery never received the attention Given that of an unrelated who killed cock Robin to which the Sparrow con those interested in the shooter of John Are Likely to run up against the Stone Wall of disdain at fingerprint ing and contempt for the Bandy in about of recriminations As if those searching for the culprit were themselves blameworthy for being cruelly slanted if we must Deal with this expression slanted in favor of the con lets adopt a style i prefer to putting quotation Marks around the noun clause or trying to set it off with the capitalization of instead of getting into a who shot John or descending to a who shot i would rather not be drawn into a Vav it it Larchmont lockjaw is a mysterious message left for with no further by my col league Russell this alliterative geographic slur May refer to a Type of speech by but since neither Baker nor i am Young or upwardly i must assume it has something to do with the accent of upper class lower Lassen returning to Suburbia from ritzy Fin Ishing schools More re search is needed on this often used to qualify or otherwise influence can get you in consider i was not fully said president Reagan in dropping the Bombshell of the diversion of iranian arms profits to the on the nature of one of the activities under taken in connection with this Initia at the reaction to the presi dents statement focused on his Deni Al of having been aware of the apparently unlawful then eyes turned to the adverb Why had Reagan chosen to say he had not been fully informed if he had not been told of the use of the arms Transfer Why did he not simply i was not the use of not fully implied Par As Robert Bletchman wrote to the Washington his speech writers should have warned him what not fully informed if Reagan had no knowledge at that would have been easy to say straight reporters asked but the president at first ducked then had his press spokesman say Flat out that he had not been the president and his in choosing the fully had wanted to cover the possibility that he May have been informed in or wanted to avoid the appearance of a president admitting to being totally out of touch on a Central or perhaps they did not realize the significance of not mennonite bundled up against the prepare for a traditional horse and buggy ride to shoo Fly Varenik set Yule Pace new York daily news shoo Fly pie and Fleisc Kraut and spaetzle and Sweet potato croquettes christmastime in the Pennsylvania dutch country Means cooking up a the Antish celebrate Christmas without says Kenny Pellman of the Peoples a local educational Centre that informs outsiders about the Amish Way of there Are no lights or massive but there is a lot of and lots and lots of homemade so if its a simple old fashioned Christmas youre looking an Amish settlement is the place to step out of your Motel room door in the Early morning and hear the clip clop of an Amish horse and buggy on its Way to the Amish and their closely aligned spiritual the mennonites were driven out of Europe in the 1600s for their religious Many then emigrated to where they set up farming communities and carried out lives devoted to a Strong religious some of today Amish and mennonites still live the simple lifestyle advocated by their in that Means dressing in Plain clothing and shunning the use of electricity or child molestation complainant found dead los Angeles times los Angeles the Mother who started the Mcmartin pre school child molestation Case by accusing Raymond Buckey of sexually abusing her son was found dead in her Home Friday even As a los Angeles judge was refusing to release Buckey on the body of Judy Ann was discovered by police officers Fonyo to wed Alberta woman in big ceremony Calgary up Steve the on legged runner who crossed Canada to raise Money for cancer is getting married to a woman he met while on his Cross country trek last and Wendy of Are going to have the largest wedding the Small Community just East of Cal Gary on the Tran Canada Highway has Ever Reeders Judy Peth said wed like them to get mar ried she after this is where they who is making most of the plans for the said the couple wants to invite about 400 Fonyo and his Fiancee Are vacationing in and plan to spend Christmas with their during his 14month run across Fonyo had a Public parting with another woman he had befriended Dur ing the Fonyo raised million for cancer his Steve Fonyo who accompanied his son on the run and supported another one started in Britain this died recently of lung Fonyo has said he will continue the run through Scot land and England in the who went to the Home after being called by police said that there were no visible signs of trauma and that neither the cause nor the time of death was because of her involvement in the sensational Mcmartin in which there had been allegations by defence attorneys that she was mentally unstable and whipped up hysteria among other los Angeles county sheriffs homicide officers were asked to take Over the i Vestiga sheriffs information Bureau Dep Uty Pete Fosselman said that the cause of death would have to be determined by a coroners earlier in the los Angeles Superior court judge William Pounders denied bail to Buckey be cause of the repeated testimony of so Many of the child victims that the defendant had threatened the cold record clearly establishes that there Are Pounders carry them out Pounders added that at this time he feared that Buckey might try to carry them Buckey and his Peggy Mcmartin who has been free since january when friends and relatives posted eight pieces of prop erty in lieu of Cash Are charged with a total of 101 counts of child molestation and conspiracy involving 14 former students at the Virginia Mcmartin preschool in Manhattan about 20 Miles South of los the District attorneys office dropped charges against the Nursery schools founder and four teachers there in citing both the California Constitution and the victims Bill of Pounders said that he was keeping in jail in the interest of Public safety and because a Man facing 80 felony counts and More than 100 years behind bars might have an incentive to the judge suggested that granting of bail might not be far he took note of the wednes Day testimony by Deputy District attorney Lael Rubin that she had failed for nearly a year to inform defence attorneys of information casting a Cloud Over Johnsons credibility in her complaints about Buck Rubin testified that she had in tended to Tell the defence that John son said that her son had also complained of being molested by los Angeles school Board member Roberta among Rubin said that she considered the Weintraub allegation ridiculous and negligently let the matter Johnson testified behind closed doors during the Marathon preliminary hearing in the at the she was also attending hear Ings in dependency court Over whether she was a fit Mother for her two children because of her mental prosecution attorneys said Early in the proceedings that Johnsons mental problems might have been caused by the Strain of the preschool but the defence said that documents they finally obtained indicated she was in emotional difficulty much the defence contended that it was her continuing allegations and con Stant Telephone Calls to other parents that caused the initial hysteria sur rounding the meningitis outbreak kills suburban Toronto youth Toronto up a Toronto boy died of meningitis in Hospital late Friday a few Days after students at his suburban High school were warned to see their doctors to Check for signs of the Richard Persaud died in the hos Pital for sick children after being kept alive on life support two other students from Lester Pearson collegiate continue to receive treatment for meningitis in Hospital a 14yearold girl listed in fair condition yesterday and an 18 year old boy in stable Keith medical offi of health suburban scar sent out a letter wednes Day recommending that the students from the High school see their physicians to get a preventative anti Biot doctors at Scarborough Centen nary Hospital set up a clinic and have seen More than 800 but Haven admitted though sometimes is not highly Fitz Gerald More than 90 per cent of those who develop the disease recover fully with the help of but those who dont receive the drugs or dont respond to them can die within 24 hours of the outset of the which results from inflammation of the brain 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