Word: malaprop
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...Tammany Hall machine, who filled in as the Democrats' mayor of New York (1932-33) when Jimmy Walker quit under pressure; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. The prototype of Novelist Joel Sayre's political satire, Hizzoner the Mayor, O'Brien kept his constituents constantly amused with his malaprop oratory (Sample: "That scientist of scientists, Albert Weinstein"), cooperated with pressagents by accepting such titles as "Ole-Bo-Lon, the Scentless Chrysanthemum" from a Chinese restaurant, habitually referred to New York as "this great metropolis city." So loyal was he to Tammany that when reporters once asked...
...Dagmar sat on a high stool in a low-cut dress and just breathed. Somehow, televiewers liked to look at her. They clamored for more Dagmar. She was brought from her perch, led to the center of the stage, handed several sheets of paper and directed to read their malaprop contents. Dagmar performed with the same majestic and rhythmic perfection she brought to breathing. Televiewers loved...
Personality (in his case, that of a malaprop with a Spanish accent) has paid Cugat well. Last year his records, radio, film and nightclub work grossed a million dollars, perhaps the highest income ever earned by a bandleader...
...long list of stars must take a back seat to Paramount's latest find, though Ed Gardner's many fans could have told us years ago about this new-found "Maggotism, personal maggotism." This modern Malaprop steals the show with his classic but chering of the King's English, and his latest crack about Duffy and his money--"That guy, if he can't take it with him to Heaven, positively won't go!"--more than atones for the rest of the ordeal...
Samuel Goldwyn, famed as Hollywood's greatest Malaprop, arrived in England on a special mission for FEA, spent a day among the Oxfordons as the guest of Balliol's dean. To students he made a promise: "For years I have been known for saying 'include me out,' but ... I am giving it up forever. From now on let me say: 'Oxford . . . include...