Word: dialectical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more precisely than the words. The vocabulary of 16 pieces was to him a language capable of the finest rythms, the most terrible and subtle inflections. The sly digressions of a slanting bishop, the rapid cynicisms of a threatened queen, the stormy contraditions of the agile castles?these provided dialect in which the finest abstractions could be stated. By 1921, when he had not lost a game for seven years, Capablanca met German Dr. Lasker* for the championship and won four games without losing any. Since then, until this autumn, he had lost only three games...
...youngest children. One finds an evening alive with chorus girls. More beautiful girls than ever. It's odd how chorus girls in Manhattan shows seem to grow better & better looking on the average. One finds delightful dancing; even a smart song here and there. A German dialect comedian called Jack Pearl is very funny; one Jack Osterman tries and tries to be funny. One finds another good revue...
People ask whether M. Balieff in private really speaks as broken English as he does for public consumption. He does not. But his dialect has become so completely a stock in trade that he uses it in conversation and correspondence. Says...
...Noli has been prominent in Albanian political affairs for a number of years. He has the honor of being the first Albanian delegate to the League of Nations. In addition to his political work he has translated Longfellow and Shakespeare into the native dialect...
...stends: 'Playe stends for hape Wot he leeves in de trizz; Whan he nidds a gless meelfc He'll a cuccanot squizze!!'" All Milt Gross's humor is like this. There is no satire, no attempt at subtlety, beyond the infinite subtlety of the extraordinary dialect in which his characters cavort. They-Mr. & Mrs. Feitlebaum, Looy, Isidore, Nize Baby, Mrs. Noftolis-are continuously excited. At home, at the theatre, at the "sisshore," they jabber at one another in a wild jargon, which appears at first glance totally incomprehensible; at second and ensuing glances, astonishingly familiar...