MORNING SPEW: William Winlock Miller, Puyallup ladder burglar, Malibu Paul ...

By Volcano Staff on July 2, 2010

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>>> SOUTH SOUND SPECIFIC

Olympia residents elected the town's first mayor in 1873 - William Winlock Miller. Before then, a town president was selected annually from among the members of the town board. William Winlock Miller High School opened in 1907 on land donated by Miller's wife on the grounds immediately east of the sunken gardens in the Washington State Capitol Campus. In 1961 the high school split in two forming Olympia High and Tumwater High.

>>> TODAY'S WORD

anarthria (an-'ar-thre-e) noun [New Latin, from Greek anarthros, not articulated]

Loss of the motor ability that enables speech

anarthric - adjective

Usage example: And then Elly May just stood there, gasping and grinning, utterly speechless, giddy as a schoolgirl on meth, very nearly anarthric, quivering and goosebumped all over her oatmealy skin, as a masked man on a ladder peered at her naked body through her second story Puyallup apartment window. "At least someone's interested in seeing me naked," she didn't manage to whisper to her fat husband in the next room who was frothing at the mouth over SportsCenter.

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