Word: idioms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Richardson said that the Berlitz schools in Germany are now using TIME in their courses, and that an English instructor told him: "We find it the very best means of acquainting our students with the American idiom." That idiom, however, is often baffling. Says Richardson: Even our German employees find many phrases in TIME puzzling and come to us to have them translated. Some questions : "What does this expression 'get cracking' mean?" "What is a Toni?" "What are daisy hams?" "Why do you say 'cool' cash?" "What kind of man is a square...
...drawing room comedies, there is always one minor character who is extremely annoying. Usually it is and American, who is supplied with a pile of Yankee idiom and a vicious accent and who distributes these to the audience with magnanimity. But "Yes M'Lord" 's American is a girl and relatively well behaved, and Elaine Stritch brings enough, restraint to the role to excuse her occasional moralizing. She is part of a generally excellent cast...
...minute work jolted to an abrupt stop, the audience gave Sessions a polite hand. The critics bit their tongues and tensed their cheeks. The Herald Tribune's Francis D. Perkins cautiously admired the scoring as "remarkable in its hues and timbres," but warned his readers that "the harmonic idiom ... is of the type sometimes described as advanced." Wrote the New York Times's Olin Downes: "For us it is a painfully studied and artificial piece of writing [but] this may be a mistaken estimate of the work...
...comic strip and a Lorelei doll modeled on Carol's lines. Even the glacial captains of café society's most chichi saloons, "21" and the Stork, went out of their way to bow effusively and greet her by name. "Everything," said Carol in her own peculiar idiom, "has leveled off just wonderfully...
...fleetly traveled route strewn with ingratiating performances, serviceable tunes and clever lyrics, first-rate dances (especially Vera-Ellen's Miss Turnstiles Ballet) and lighthearted comedy, including a neat spoof of Manhattan nightclubs. It also leaves a happy impression that M-G-M has hit upon a bright new idiom for cine-musicals and a bright new directing team that knows...