"Who is this 'they' we talk about?"  See this video about a surprising pronoun alternative.  From Purdue University's 1972 yearbook.

From Preparatory Book to Accompany Wide Wings by Gates, Huber & Peardon, 1939.

From Modern English Writing by Douglas Bement, 1937.

From Preparatory Book to Accompany Wide Wings by Gates, Huber & Peardon, 1939.

Reblog if you take "Seen, eaten, gone" vacations.  From Sharing Experiences by McKee & McCowen and illustrated by Corinne Malvern & Sylvia Haggander, 1947.

This curse muttered by a biologist, "erysipelatous strabismic steatopygian" is a Googlewhack, though it occurs in Van Vogt's The Voyage of the Space Beagle.  The individual words paint a grotesque picture.

From The Pathfinder, 1929.

From Preparatory Book to Accompany Wide Wings by Gates, Huber & Peardon, 1939.

X stands for kisses and is used on beer barrels.  From Punch, 1910.  For a remarkable number of definitions of X, see One-Letter Words: A Dictionary.

"If we are with the right and for it, though all the world have gone over to the other side, the long line of ancestral and glorified men are behind us, —troops of beautiful, tall angels, to enshield us from all wrong."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars by Carl Garrison, 1901.

From Preparatory Book to Accompany Wide Wings by Gates, Huber & Peardon, 1939.

"The commercial 'we.'"  From Punch, 1910.

If you happen to be out of a "hhg of aunty ock" (Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch?), here's one, and may it be just in time.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.

A very rare word: "panthygatric."  From Indiana University's 1906 yearbook and 1896 yearbook.

When words fail to do the subject justice.  From (Stevens Institute of Technology's) Eccentric, 1879.

From Modern English Writing by Douglas Bement, 1937.

From Preparatory Book to Accompany Wide Wings by Gates, Huber & Peardon, 1939.

From Purple Parrot, 1922.

From Le Vocabulaire par la Méthode Naturelle Séri 1 by Les Frères du Sacre-Coeur, 1900.