Today’s WOTD – 7 September 2012

vitiate
[vish-ee-eyt]
verb (used with object), vitiated, vitiating.
1. to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil.
2. to impair or weaken the effectiveness of.
3. to debase; corrupt; pervert.
4. to make legally defective or invalid; invalidate. for example: to vitiate a claim.

Today’s quote

On thro’ the hours, triumphant, proud an’ fit,
The champeen marches on ‘is up’ard way,
Till, at the zenith, bli’me! ‘E–is–IT!
And all the world bows to the Boshter Day.
The jealous Night speeds ethergrams thro’ space
‘Otly demandin’ terms, an’ time, an’ place.

– C.J. Dennis, from ‘The Stoush of Day‘, ‘Songs of a Sentimental Bloke‘ … originally published in The Bulletin  on 1 April 1909 … note that C.J. Dennis foretold email by about 90 years with his reference to ‘ethergrams thro’ space’

On this day

7 September 1876 – birth of C.J. Dennis, Australian poet (Songs of a Sentimental Bloke). Died 22 June 1938.

7 September 1978 – death of Keith Moon, British musician, drummer for ‘The Who’.