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In Annapolis, the Bureau's 20-year representation of the Bloomsbury public housing project resulted in a victory that will result in the relocation of residents Co many of them elderly and disabled Co to new waterfront housing that will keep the last black neighborhood in the city intact.
There is support, in both the OED 2nd Supplement and the Dictionary of American Slang , by Wentworth and Flexner, for Tony Thorne's definition, in the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang [XVII, 3], of `callow youth' for gunsel . That appears to be the primary meaning of the word, whose suggested definition is from Yiddish genzel, gantzel and/ or German Gänslein, Gänzel `gosling, young goose.
After umpteen biographies celebrating "Bloomsbury's mad feminist," Lee's is saluted for rediscovering the "real Woolf."
Bloomsbury Dictionary of Word Origins,
The review of my Bloomsbury Dictionary of Dedications [XVII,4] made no mention of the fact that the quoted dedications are glossed or explicated.