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...lexicon of permissible slang Mrs. Post, who was once heard to describe a table layout as "lousy," adds such expressions as "O.K.." "swell," "divine," "and how!" "so what?" "you betcha." But she never hears "colyum," "ottawobile," "eggsit," "tomayto," "cult-your" (which she pronounces "cultcha")* in good society. Her pet hate: pretentious circumlocutions such as "permit me to assist you" instead of "let me help...
...nature is Angler Heilner's province. He has worked for the American Museum of Natural History; indeed it was while investigating a new finch, a rail and a wren for them that he discovered for sportsmen the tarpon of Cuba, in the Encantado (Enchanted) River. His fishing lexicon is shot richly through with biological side glances. It is interesting to know that the jutla (arboreal rat) of Cuba is that island's only native mammal, discovered by Columbus; that the weakfish which spawn in Peconic Bay do so without issue, some cause aborting all their efforts north...
...premature, the situation has considerably changed. She loses interest in both the inventor and the Congressman, rides off wrapped around the pressagent. Greater than her importance to the U. S. cinema public, which could presumably get along without her, is Mae West's importance as a lexicon of those slouching wisecracks, grimy proverbs and reckless, light-hearted double-entendres without which the great mass of the U. S. population would be almost inarticulate. In go West Young Man, she delivers a full quota which will doubtless become, immediately and indelibly, part of the U. S. jargon. When her escort...
...they took their seats in what is still the world's fourth largest theatre,* they received further premonition of the grandeur that was to come. But when the cylindrical curtain around the protruding ring-stage at last rose, result could only be described by a word from the lexicon of Jumbo's chief comic. Jimmy Durante: "Colossial...
...public is of the opinion that a candidate may be defeated, then, in the lexicon of politics, it becomes a possibility that he can be beaten. Last fortnight the silver-haired ex-diplomat, Henry Prather Fletcher, who has been far from a diplomatic success as Republican National Chairman, marched to the microphone, as he has not done in months, and cried over the air: "It has been wisecracked that you cannot eat the Constitution. You can't, nor can you eat the Bible, or the Golden Rule, or the Ten Commandments, or the deed to your property, or your...