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...graph: the product of X (frequency) times Y (conspicuousness) is some constant N. "We might fill in X and Y with their actual values," he says, "and solve the equation for N: we should undoubtedly find N a number varying infinitesimally from person to person, slightly from dialect to dialect, distinctly from culture to culture, and vastly between the languages of primitive and civilized men. In fact, I believe that an understanding of N will ultimately lead to an understanding of that stuff called Life...
...husband, and once even bites off the lobe of that worthy's ear in her defense. Mulliver is already committed to a farmer's lass; the housekeeper and her brutal husband disappear; the converted grocer marries the girl. It is a pleasantly rustic idyll, with enough quaint dialect to tickle good humor, just enough "real life" to emphasize the idyll...
...Weitzenkorn. At 16, as a cub reporter on the Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times-Leader, he had begun a long journalistic stint. He had worked on the New York Times, the Tribune, the Call, the World. When he was Sunday editor of the World, Editor Weitzenkorn saw some funny Yiddish dialect by one of his cartoonists. Colleagues said nobody outside The Bronx would understand it but Editor Weitzenkorn printed and let millions laugh at Milt Gross's "Nize Baby...
...Vanity Fair and other smartcharts Author Keene's piquant stories have been appearing side by side with more mature work. Mostly the characters are English in names and dialect while the style has more than an air of Russian futility. This compilation contains Author Keene's idea of his best stories to date. Typical is "The Latch-Key," a story wherein a girl returns to her apartment on the eve of her marriage to find a discarded lover's compromising revenge: suicide in her supposedly virginal...
...drawing board on a raised dais, gazes regally down on callers. He is a connoisseur of dress, food, coffee. At his home in Danbury, Conn. he makes his own electricity, tinkers with household machinery, plays Bach and Mozart on the phonograph. He also tells innumerable stories in dialect, including the Finnish...