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Most of Durante's word-mangling is spontaneous, Fowler swears-though Jimmy is shrewd enough to know that "if I learned to pronounce the big words, 60 of my pals would be out of work next day, includin' myself." Fowler has collected dozens of Durante's malapropisms. In a low mood, Jimmy once said, "The red corpsuckles is gone from my veins. I'm just a hollow shelf." Another time, when he had mistaken a firebreak clearing in the woods for the highway, he remarked, "Us perfessors don't get out of the chemical lavatory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On the Pedasill | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

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