Word: idiom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liberated Leyte, where Filipinos have been singing God Bless the Philippines to the tune of Irving Berlin's God Bless America, a soldier troupe performance of Composer Berlin's This Is the Army last week tried out a brand new number in the U.S. idiom: Heaven Watch the Philippines...
They should be revised in modern idiom...
...years ago when ragtime and jazz were born in New Orleans. In those days, Americans--and Europeans--listened to symphony orchestras and military bands, and they danced only to string orchestras. Only the musicians and a small element of the Negro population knew this new American folk idiom. Today, the popularity of Duke Ellington among the name bands, the crowded bistros of New York's 52nd Street and Greenwich Village, and the prodigious increase in the issue of jazz recordings attest that people, far from becoming bored with the earliest and purest forms of folk music, are just beginning...
Rose's U.S. idiom is consistently accurate: "Back in your old home town, remember the old juke box and what you got out of it? Remember the cheese sandwiches and the cokes with the gang? It's pretty hard to remember, but your juke box once had this piece: Crosstown [music]. . . . And whenever that came out of the juke box, somebody started an impromptu rumba and boy, did the manager kick. But that was only when your mood was good, whether it was the moon, the coke, or the girl...
...grade, had been a dynamite hauler, telephone repairer, sledge-hammerer, semi-pro baseball pitcher). He started penciling names and items he heard around the park's tennis courts and bathing beach, sold them as a weekly sports column to the Capital Times. The technique and Roundy's idiom have not changed a bit in 25 years. The State Journal hired Roundy as a daily columnist in 1924, and let his murderous English go unarrested...