Glossary of words used in her Diary Index
Olave sometimes uses a word that seems strange, so here is a list of such words (NOT people !).
If you know the meaning and / or the reason,
or if you come across a word you don't understand, please let us know.
Beetle (26 March 1928) – Olave’s name for her typewriter.
Brush - see Mask below.
Camp Edith Macy, Briarciff, Pensylvania (21 Apr 1946): The Edith Macy Conference Center in Briarcliff is considered by many to be the Girl Scout’s secondary birthplace. Edith Macy was chair of the Girl Scout National Board of Directors from 1919 to 1925. Her husband purchased and donated land adjacent to an existing Girl Scout camp to build a training headquarters in her memory. The property was known early on as “the university in the woods”. In 1926 the site hosted the Fourth International Conference on Scouting, the first international Girl Scouting event held on American soil, attended by 56 delegates from 31 countries. ( source”The Macy” Briarcliff’s Hidden Gem article on The inside press website theinsidepress.com)
Cars -
JamRoll - A Rolls-Royce presented at the Jamboree
Jimmajor (Standard) or Jimmimax - 18 h.p. Standard
Jimmy - Standard - 9 h.p. - a two- seater
Jimminor - the trailer
D.V. – “Deo Volente” - Latin for “God willing”
E.A.W.L. -– East Africa Women’s League
Eccles - their caravan, presented with JamRoll, which towed it. Named after the maker.
Emergency Aid Society (18 Apr 1946) – possibly reference to Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania, a women’s volunteer organisation that was founded by eight Philadelphia women in 1914 to provide war time relief and later philanthropic community service (source Historical Society of Pennsylvania)
JamRoll - A Rolls-Royce presented at the Jamboree
JimMajor (Standard) or Jimmimax - 18 h.p. Standard
Jimmy - Standard - 9 h.p. - a two- seater
JimMinor - the trailer
Marshall Field Museum (now known as the Field Museum), Chicago (8 Apr 1946) is a natural history museum and one of the largest such museums in the world
Mask - in fox-hunting, the hounds would catch the fox, and usually kill it within seconds. The MFH (Master of Fox Hounds) was usually the first person to arrive at the scene, and, if the fox was still alive, would shoot it with a pistol. The head (the Mask) was cut off, and the tail (the Brush). Other followers of the Hunt would arrive, and the first person to arrive that had never before been at the kill, was awarded the mask as a trophy. The Brush was awarded to the second person to arrive who had bever won one.
Mortimer L. Schiff Scout Reservation (22 Apr 1946) – located in northern New Jersey, it was a major Boy Scouts of America training facility from 1932 – 1979. The land was purchased for the BSA by Mrs Schiff in memory of her son Mortimer who died an untimely death while President of the BSA in 1931. He was also a World Scout Committee member. (Source: Wikipedia)
Shawgm - a black Labrador, given to the B-Ps 1st September 1928 by - and named with the initials of - Shropshire, Herefordshire, A (to make it pronouncable), Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire.
Twn - a small pet dog they had - more details to follow (I hope !)
Waelderhaus (5 Apr 1946)- located in Kohler, Wisconsin, U.S.A., this is ‘a house in the woods’ built in the Alpine style of the Bregenz area of Austria, the ancestral homeland of the Kohler family.
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