Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discord between Hitler and Göring is club-footed little Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, increasingly mighty as his Ministry of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment rivets its control ever tighter on Germany's press, radio, drama and cinema. Dr. Goebbels' scheme for getting rid of the Premier of Prussia is simply to abolish Prussia as a State. Last week General Göring, fighting for his Premier-hood, was able to force into one and only one Berlin newspaper a short account of a call he had just made on President von Hindenburg...
...General Göring," reported Der Tag, "President von Hindenburg stressed the historical importance of Prussia. The aged President will not permit his beloved Prussia, which for nearly half a century was the backbone of the German Empire, to be carved up into districts without a fight...
...Pearl ring...
...Ring Lardner...
...Blessed event," "phttf and "middle-aisle" by Winchell are too conscious to be slang; "whoopee," old when he first used it, is already obsolete. "Bugs" Baer's small Hearst column contains wisecracks like "ears like handles on a loving cup" which are the opposite of slang. Ring Lardner, who died a week after Sime Silverman, was usually careful to avoid inventions of his own, stuck close to the jargon of baseball. Columnist Damon Runyon mixes authentic underworld talk with invented freaks. Gelett Burgess' The Goops contributed a less valuable word than Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt. George...