Word: barkings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...AMERICAN THESAURUS OF SLANG-Lester V. Berrey and Melvin Van den Bark-Crowell...
...absorbing, 1,174-page thesaurus since 1931. He got special checking help from such experts as Bing Crosby (on music), Variety's Jack Edward (entertainment slang), John A. Leslie of Ohio State Prison on the language of tramps and the underworld. His collaborator, Nebraskan Philologist Melvin Van den Bark, worked out the main outlines of classification and groupings of words. In general these follow Roget but they culminate in 430 highly readable pages on "Special Slang" of various trades, sports and regions. That section alone will probably help more third-rate novelists look like second-raters than .any previous...
...again, waved her arms, and more waiting vehicles drove off in the opposite direction. After a short time they all came back. These operations were repeated several times very smoothly until a big dog came along. The dog ran in front of the stray ambulance and began to bark. The woman in slacks called other women in slacks, but they couldn't get the dog out of the street since he was a big fierce dog. But none of the women fainted...
...three concoctions endorsed by Hauser-"Slim" (containing the harmful drugs senna, bladderwrack, buckthorn bark), "Correcol" (consisting of weeds and gum), and Hauser Potassium Broth (a mixture of alfalfa, okra. beet tops, etc.)-were seized and declared by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration to be "misbranded and sold under false and fraudulent claims...
...Four Stars. Up to his shoulder boards in the boiling Far Eastern stew, Tommy Hart last week found time to play a bit of golf, take a few members of his staff to the movies. Too old a sea dog to bark before biting, he still had a twinkle in his weather eye as he kept it cocked on his nautical domain. The beat he patrols is large - from Wake west to China - but the Admiral knows it like the back of his hand...