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This, the 1941 Harper Prize ($10,000) novel, is a problem book about marriage among U.S. upper-middle class, eastern-seaboard, Smith-or-Vassar bred, young housewives. It is written in their official dialect, by one of them. For the rest of them, it will probably be the novel of the season...
Mineral Water Salesman Hal Collins, with a radio following, a string band, a dialect entertainer, introduced a new trick at campaign rallies: he gave away a mattress to the largest family present. But when O'Daniel entered the race, Hal Collins dropped out, saying, "Anybody with an ounce of brains would know it's the only thing...
Once Walter Winchell nearly got Young into trouble. Winchell broadcast: "What are they holding you for, spreading peace rumors?" Spreading peace rumors in Japan is a prison offense. When the police asked what Winchell meant, Young told them: "In New York they have a different dialect from my part of the country, and I cannot understand Winchell-san's dialect...
Kentucky Hillbilly Jesse Stuart (Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow, Trees of Heaven) is something of a Professional American. It shows in his tendency to machine-gun a page with overlabored dialect, and to indulge a special fondness for plants, farming terms and place names. It is an unlucky affectation for a young writer. But even if he never gets rid of it, Jesse Stuart has body and vigor enough to carry...
...Landis played Hamlet with a comic Dutch gravedigger who recited in dialect and unearthed tin cans and beer bottles along with Yorick's skull...