Word: raconteur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crissty Colombiss" and the perpetual menace of "Leetle Rad Riding Hood." But then perhaps the possibilities are limited. They are, indeed, between the Grossian and Burbigian dialects. As one well versed in the variations of 'English as she is spoke', this reviewer, at a guess, would say that the raconteur of Mr. Burbig's stories is of mixed Jewish and Italian parentage and that he learned his English somewhere in Amsterdam Ave. As a result the pristine purity of the true Yiddish-English, a dialect to delight the heart of the connoiseur, is lost...
...Raconteur Sell, or any person, state wherein TIME was "prejudiced during the campaign."-ED. Ives, Luboschez, Sheppard Sirs...
...connoisseurs of captains choose the Minnewaska. He was the youngest of 18 children, ran away to sea at the age of 13, and during his motley career has supervised the tiller of every sort of craft. But Captain Claret's capability, his geniality and prowess as a raconteur do not constitute a complete estimate of the man. There is linked with him some apparently metaphysical Baedeker which directs him wherever the fates most joyfully convene. During the War he was on the bridge of the transport Minnehaha when it was torpedoed off the Irish coast. The ship sank...
...hitherto correctly stigmatized as highbrow now contained opinions of dominant people on controversial matters. The articles had a pleasant downrightness as different from the style of the newspaper editorial writer as a dopester's diagnosis before a fight is unrecognizable twenty-four hours later in the same dopester turned raconteur. The magazine publisher's eye was not, like that of many newspapermen, upon circulations retained by editorials palely loitering on the outskirts of the true issue. He believed in the verity of Walter Hines Page's idea: "The way to make any publication succeed is to make people talk about...
Last week a ship set out from England, bearing to the U. S. that suave young cosmopolite, born Dik-ran Kuyumjian beside the Bulgarian Danube some 35 years ago, whose activities on the banks of the Thames as Michael Arlen, Anglo-Armenian raconteur, spread his fame to the banks of the Hudson and set a fashion in headgear among remotest upcreek settlements. Simultaneous with his return* to the U. S., Michael Arlen's agents last week announced that his novel and play of 1924-25, The Green Hat, are to have a third incarnation, as cinema, perhaps with Norma...