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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Thoughts on a Thursday...

Appropriate for today.....



hustings

   HUHS-tingz  , noun;

1.
The political campaign trail.

2.
(Before 1872) the temporary platform on which candidates
for the British Parliament stood when nominated and from which they addressed the electors.

3.
Any place from which political campaign speeches are made.

4.
Also called hustings court. A local court in certain parts of Virginia.


Quotes:
But he still had to go out to the hustings a wordwhose
meaning he'd never learned, and campaign forpeople, or at least
give speeches.
-- Tom Clancy, Executive Orders
Now, do not let them lure you to the hustings mydear Mr. Brooke.
-- George Eliot, Middlemarch

Origin:
Hustings  is derived from the Old Danish word hūs-thing
which meant "house meeting."

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