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...articles, mainly second-rate, by the late D. H. Lawrence and Thome Smith, by John Dos Passes, Erskine Caldwell, Theodore Dreiser, John Steinbeck, Westbrook Pegler; The Snows of Kilimanjaro, one of the most ambitious and psychologically the most painful of Hemingway's stories; a wide-open Ring Lardner razz of wrestling ("Come on, Alexis; take me. Anything but a toehold."); Helen Brown Norden's famous Latins Are Lousy Lovers-which is less interesting in itself than in its unintended suggestion that American women are lousy...
Father Hopkins could also tell his daughter that this was the first message to Congress during the delivery of which Roosevelt II received a thoroughgoing razz from the Opposition...
That another standard of honor and taste does exist, however deplorable, Nemo cannot deny. Otherwise there would be nothing at which he could stick out his tongue, otherwise nothing at which he could thumb his nose; nothing against which he could display his contempt with the Bowery razz. It would seem to be only fair, then, that he should accord to the other school, the same frank admission of honesty of character and motive freely granted...
Real slang is invented by persons antisocial enough to resent commonplace terms but too ignorant to use synonyms. Publisher Funk's list necessarily omitted the coiners of such plain and useful words as "washout," "lousy," "okay," "beat it," "razz." Last week the fatherly New York Times which never permits slang to appear in its columns commented thus: "Good slang is 'sock on the jaw' and poor slang is 'economic Neanderthals' both from the collection of General Hugh Johnson. The first is as near to the soil as corned beef & cabbage; the second is recherch...
...examples from Jack London. George Ade, O. Henry, H. L. Mencken, Zane Grey-even so unliterary an exemplar as the late great Baseballer Christy Mathewson ("yellow streak"). In the long list from "aasvogel" to "zooming" some U. S. examples: "Speak-easy" (1889): "Yup. U.S. Variant of yep, yes" (1906); "Razz [short for Razzberry]. Disapproval expressed by hissing or booing directed against an actor or other person" (1926); "Wow. A 'great success'" (1927); "Zipper" (1925); "Vamp...