Word: dialectics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...serve the papers on the Cacuta's captain. The marshal found the Colombian captain on the bridge one day last week. He turned out to be one J. R. Hodges, late of Mobile, Ala. An alert newshawk of the Philadelphia Record was on hand to record in dialect the conversation...
...week's second happy legitimate debut (see below), oldtime Song-&-Dance Man Fred Stone turns in a vivid characterization as hot-blooded "Ace." A great parodist in his time, Actor Stone shines best when, as the persuasive stumpster, he drops into Western, Southern or Irish dialect at will, depending on whom he is trying to persuade. Unconsciously, he confuses the part a bit by also imitating Will Rogers, Eddie Foy and Glenn Anders from time to time...
Author Bradford's Negro dialect has an authentic ring but is stamped with his own mark. In almost every book he introduces some memorable tag of nigger-talk. In Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun it was: "Soap an' water, country boy"- deep South for Broadway's "Oh, yeah?" In Let the Band Play Dixie it is the almost untranslatable "and de doctor can't do me no good"-an expression denoting joyful determination, usually in the direction of gin or gals. For fittingly strong words to express astonishment: "Well, do, my Redeemer!"* Sample...
...rest of the U. S. the Pennsylvania Dutch are material for funny-dialect anecdotes, but Author Williamson has skilfully fitted them into his melodramatic formula. In his story, a neat blend of hexerei, psittacosis and the primal appetites, Pennsylvania Dutch dialect throws into ironic relief an increasingly sinister plot. Herman Bauer, good farmer and good husband, coveted his neighbor's land. But if Neighbor Erdman had not come down with parrot fever, which looked like hexerei, if Herman had not found his mother's little hexing book, he might not have gone on to covet Erdman...
...Bill Sikes is expelled for torturing young Carmichael who achieves top place in the form. Bill Sikes has nothing against young Carmichael. He is only annoyed to find his own name in last place. Skinnymalink Jamieson, father of "Slug" Jamieson, makes the commencement speech in an outlandish Scots dialect while the ashamed "Slug" betrays him in the hope of ingratiating himself with his scornful fellows. Out of the intellectual, moral and personal involvements of the masters and the equally complicated problems of the boys, Bruce Marshall has written a fresh, humorous and appealing story to be added to the long...