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Keith C. Steele '35, chairman of the dance committee for the Lowell House's Annual Spring Dance has announced that Larry Funk and his orchestra will play at the dance to be held Friday evening, May 11. The committee appointed to take care of the arrangements for the affair is made up of Steele, Edward B. Lee, Jr. '34, Arthur Willis, Jr. '35, George T. Skinner '36 and David E. Gates...
...ROOSEVELT YEAR-Funk & Wagnalls ($2.75). †MEMORIES OF KUPEIKOW by Joseph Yu, M. I).-Liang Yon Printing & Publishing Co., Ltd., Shanghai ($1 gold...
...theme has, of course, been one of the favorite obsessions of Marxists since the foreign attacks of 1919-1920; but I do not think that up until very recently it has represented to them anything but an annunciation of doctrine. The thing that caused them to revive this political funk is the upsetting of the European status quo established at Versailles by the refurbishment of Germany under Hitler, with the result that a territorial realignment now looms. Obviously, the likeliest power at whose expense this realignment could be accomplished is Russia; in that way a war of mutual destruction could...
...stuck close to the jargon of baseball. Columnist Damon Runyon mixes authentic underworld talk with invented freaks. Gelett Burgess' The Goops contributed a less valuable word than Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt. George Ade's Fables in Slang were funnier than real slang. Gene Buck, who, Mr. Funk said last week, had once told him he "was responsible for 100 words that are now current in the language" was guilty of a songwriter's exaggeration...
Real slang is invented by persons antisocial enough to resent commonplace terms but too ignorant to use synonyms. Publisher Funk's list necessarily omitted the coiners of such plain and useful words as "washout," "lousy," "okay," "beat it," "razz." Last week the fatherly New York Times which never permits slang to appear in its columns commented thus: "Good slang is 'sock on the jaw' and poor slang is 'economic Neanderthals' both from the collection of General Hugh Johnson. The first is as near to the soil as corned beef & cabbage; the second is recherch...