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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...
Baggy-browed Phil Baker took the $64 Question to Hollywood this week. As custodian of the renowned question-now so much a part of the national idiom that even $64 prose stylists avoid using it-and quizmaster of one of U.S. radio's most popular shows, Take It or Leave It (CBS, Sun., 10 p.m., E.W.T.), Phil Baker was ready to put both on celluloid. But there would be one slight variation: to suit Hollywood's philosophy, the $64 Question would become the $640 Question...
...history-shaping event of each period takes the main headline, the story being told in 1944 idiom. Other stories reflect the background. For example, in the four editions covering the Civil War period - from the headlined "Sumter Surrenders, War Begins" to "Lincoln Assassinated" - there are stories on the European reaction, the discovery of oil in Pennsylvania, the first transatlantic cable, Queen Victoria's troubles with India, and Blondin's crossing of Niagara on a cable...
...that's not all. More than anything else, Harvard meant people. All sorts characters, to use the idiom. And now they were gone. He thought of the five who joined the happy company with him. One was at Fort Sill; one was at Princeton; two were lost in the middle west; another was en route to Murmansk, probably. Everybody else was the same way, and soon it would be a destroyer and godknowswhere for the Vag. They had wept when they left, but Vag was happy. With the index finger gone, the other four were meaningless. Soon he would escape...