Word: ain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year veteran of the mat and now one of the most successful wrestlers' agents: "You don't see punch-drunk, slap-happy wrestlers. I know at least 60 of them that got out of it rich, and no more harm to 'em than cauliflower ears. This ain't like other sports...
...matter of fact, pro wrestling ain't even a sport. It has not come close since the mid '30s, when the public began to tire of watching such "shooters" (honest wrestlers) as Jim Londos the Golden Greek and Ed ("Strangler") Lewis sweat through stolid hours of dull, defensive wrestling. Then, as the gate receipts began to fall off, the beef trust made a discovery: wrestling fans are suckers for fancy holds with fanciful names. Any one of the new maneuvers could have wrecked a man for life; yet everyone kept his health. It was obvious to the simplest...
...educator what he expects his children to get from college, he will very likely evade the question. Most college graduates seem to feel about college the way Louis Armstrong feels about rhythm: "Why man, if you gotta ask what it is, then you ain't got it." This kind of answer makes most people drop the topic, and classifies the persistent investigator as an ignorant boor. But for those who insist on some more telling argument for higher learning than mere manners, several kinds of answers are available...
...Have words, cannot unravel." This nitwit lit crit dissembled a vile mess of subliminal nonsense to suggest that Aldous Huxley is a sub-pessimistic old fuddy-daddy. He treated Huxley's prognostications, fulfilled or unfulfilled, with the strangled insincerity of a man who likes to say "say it ain't so," so he says it ain't. The thought of this compulsive lop-shifter of ideas and neologisms frothing his prophylactic at the dreaming West is downright rummy...
...begins, Father announces that the children are going to live with him. They flatly refuse. Nervously but firmly, he insists on his rights. "What can we do?" one of the little darlings snarls. "He's got the law on his side." Another muses with a sinister smirk: "He ain't gonna like it." And so the story swiftly develops into yet another clumsy, commercial switch on what is probably the most popular comedy situation in contemporary U.S. humor: the problems of bringing up father...