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...bitterest critic of Director La Cava, now 49, is another unreconstructed Hollywoodian, one W. C. Fields. Fields refers to La Cava as The Wop. La Cava's nickname for the comedian is unprintable. Crack golfers, they used to play for $100 a hole. Fields, who says he would cheat his own grandmother for cash, generally managed to talk his opponent out of match and stakes. He has willed him (although La Cava doesn't know it) $5,000 for mad money...
...sued for his share. Scotty, affable and fanciful as ever for all of 65 years and a gleaming shiner ("A mule kissed me," he explained), spun a fine yarn of a hillside currency cache which unhappily washed away when the rains came. The judge tolerantly termed him "a confessed cheat," observed that here was one hick who had trimmed city slickers. Broker Gerard, still friendly enough with Scotty to shake hands, hoped at least for a cut on the $1.10 Scotty took from tourists who came to gaze at his fancy desert residence...
Unrivaled for the richness and variety of its slang is Winchester, whose famed founder, William, of Wykeham (1373), decreed that its boys should talk Latin. Winchester finds it necessary to supply new boys with a glossary of its slang. Some Wykehamisms: abs (absent), chiz (cheat), cud (pretty, from couth, opposite of uncouth), infra-dig (scornful-to sport infra-dig duck, to look scornful), glope (spit), swink (sweat), thoke (idle in bed), ziph (a kind of pig Latin), plant (sock someone with a football...
...good can come of a Harvard student washing his own clothes or trying to do so, as was thoroughly demonstrated yesterday when Joseph Lyford '41 tried to cheat the laundries...
...affair begun by Sophie's perverse need and boredom, matured by Duncan's perception, patience and intelligence. The story suggests not only the particular value of the erotic experience for the blind man but the civilized human sanity of his conduct. And-since Author Heppenstall does not cheat, or barely does at the happy end-the particular hell through which this love affair has to pass arises precisely from Duncan's psychology of blindness...