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...Literally meaning "haughty," guappo is used in Neapolitan argot to denote a petty big shot, found its way into American slang in the early days of the melting pot as the uncomplimentary term...
...which the writer was born. The disadvantage of the escapee is that he is obliged to change his clothes to prevent detection. Novelist Phyllis Bentley has chosen to wear the sober broadcloth of her native Yorkshire, to remain and write about what she knows-the Yorkshire Tyke (English slang for York-shireman). In 19 books during the past 35 years she has "celebrated her chosen slab of earth-Yorkshire's West Riding...
...Dean." At 28, rawboned, wavy-haired Jimmy Dean* was making his nighttime TV bow as the dandy of country music, and showing a late-hour (10:30 p.m., E.D.T.) audience just why millions have been getting up at 7 a.m. five days a week to catch his slick Texas slang and catgut twang. Since April Dean has charmed early risers away from Dave Garroway's Today with his easy ways, his oleaginous grin, and a no-ulcer format thickly populated with bosomy fiddlers. Although his corn is off an aged cob ("Haven't had so much fun since...
...left or he will not have the support of ex-President Miguel Aleman (1946-52), who guided Mexican politics back to the middle of the road. Membership in the current Cabinet is almost essential. Three men fit this mold well enough to qualify for the slang adjective of presidenciable...
...short of British ideas?" screamed London's weekly The People. "The latest American import [the Phil Silvers Show] plunged us into the heart of U.S. Army life, and as the series is here to stay, we've just got to get used to the slang. A pity the B (for British) BC can't devise a British series." The tabloid Daily Mirror complained of "four American filmed programmes from the BBC ... on an English Easter...