Word: idiom
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...opportunity for a drawl was looked upon as distinctly provincial. Thanks to the school of which the Messrs. O'Neil and Stallings are the chief exponents, theatrical language has lately come to have more or less close connections with the supposed environment of the speaker, and the British idiom is largely relegated to the use of the British. But the salvation of American drama was not due to efforts on the part of foreigners. Therefore one may be pardoned for publicly sympathizing with the English in their plight and privately snickering at the American rape of the tongue...
...various kinds. Besides the terse, vigorous style required in producing news stories, there will be ample opportunity for more creative writing. The special articles, feature writing, and interviews with illustrous persons, which comprise a large part of the work, all hang for their success upon individual talent and personal idiom. The training is beneficial not only in developing writing ability, but also in forming habits of rapid, accurate expression...
...Wops ............Italians Bohunks .............Hungarians and Slavs Polacks ..........Poles Hunkies ............Hungarians Dagoes .........Italians *Later, in jail, Vanzetti fumbled with the fretwork of English idiom, his squinting pen articulating the letter below: ". . . Innocent; I am so. I did not spittel a drop of blood or steal a cent in my life. A little knowledge of the past: a sorrowful experience of life itself had give to me some idears very different from those of many other umane beings. But I wish to convince my fellowman that only with virtue and honesty is possible for us to find a little happiness...
...tendrils of loquacity with which he attaches, from dismayed friends, the trifling bits of capital necessary to promote such glittering projects as a trick-dog college; a serious-minded fistic behemoth; the abduction and restoration of his future wife's aunt's parrot; an occasional square meal. The Wodehumorous idiom that created Jeeves, Psmith and their fellows is more agile than ever. It teeters, like a clown on stacked tables, atop absurdities whose sickening crash never comes. It rides the handlebars of logic backwards, reaching its points with convulsing speed and accuracy. It convinces you that Funnyman Wodehouse must...
...sons of the road" filed to the rostrum for mimeographed diplomas witnessing the fact that they had taken courses in a curriculum limited chiefly to liberal subjects like public speaking, art appreciation, musicales, readings of literature. There were a baccalaureate address and "a class song rendered in the quaint idiom of the freight...