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Variety chirped in the theatre's argot: "Artistic success that gives little promise of attaining commercial prosperity for its producer and author. Latter probably will be praised more than he will be paid. . . . A 10-week stay at the Mansfield should be sufficient. . . . Delightful moments are numerous-but pretty arty for a mugg and dreadfully lacking in box-office ability...
Scrubby-bearded, crinkly-eyed old Michail Ivanovich Kalinin, Soviet President and popular front man for Dictator Stalin, brought delegates of the Moscow Province Soviet cheering and stamping to their feet last week with one of his characteristic speeches in homely peasant argot. "Less bread will be eaten when we have more pigs," began the hovel-born President wisely. "Those who do not care for pork will eat potatoes with genuine Russian butter [cheers] or, if they do not like butter, with genuine lard [huzzahs]. When we have enough of these products we will flood Russia with them! And moreover, when...
...Italia, personal newsorgan of Benito Mussolini, scoffed at Otto as "a thick-headed young Habsburg who could not possibly under stand Fascism." But that was last year. Since then Otto has applied himself to a diligent study of Il Duce's "Corporative State," become glib in its specialized argot. Also the assassination of Chancellor Dollfuss reminded Il Duce of the advantage of a Crown held by such a prolific dynasty as the Habsburgs...
Perfectly good Japanese today are such words as "club" (see p. 51), "kodak," "beefsteak" (pronounced bifteki) and the whole argot of baseball from "foul" to "home run." Compared to Chinese, Japanese are atrocious linguists but keep patiently plugging. Often one will sit down beside a foreigner with the bland request: "Can I talk to you so I can improve my English...
...dognapping at New Haven, suspected by the Yale possessors of Handsome Dan, II, bulldog mascot, to be the work of Harvard wretches attempting reprisal for the theft of the Lampoon's Ibis has, in the argot of crime, a number of angles. First of all, the Harvards went and lifted a section of the historic Yale fence from Pach's photographic studio. Then the Ibis disappeared. Now Yale's favorite fido has vanished, and it only requires a little Imagination to foresee the time when Chauncey Tinker may disappear from his suite in Harkness or Professor John Livingston Lowes...