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Hanging three deep on the sides of streetcars, celebrators sang "Pum pum pum" and the motorman punctuated the "meow" with a clang of his bell. Meanwhile, "There's a cat in the tuba" had become a solid part of Brazilian slang-a rough equivalent of "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark...
...spent 43 months overseas in World War II, 'said: "This is my third Christmas home and I am still not getting much kick out of it. Don't ask me why." College students, however, betrayed no such introspection. Girls from Southern Methodist University had some new slang: they spoke of all material things as "sussies" and used "sneedy" as a term of disapproval...
...Plato & Slang. It was true. By his own admission, the Abbé Lorent always carries "at least" one loaded revolver when he leaves his house. He is 37, small, slight, black-haired, blue-eyed. In his sensitive mouth and finely carved features there is a hint of fanaticism and ruthlessness. The son and grandson of coal miners, Lorent taught a parish school before the war, had a brilliant record in the Front National, in which Catholics and Communists fought the Germans side by side. In his marked northern accent he quotes from Cardinal Newman and Plato, but he also uses...
...Circus slang for a man on stilts...
...Hitler and Eva Braun. His evidence, gathered from documents and survivors, is circumstantial but pretty convincing. From the Führer-bunker, deep under the Reich Chancellery garden, the war "was directed by somnambulist decisions," he says. Russian shells crashed down overhead; Berlin was almost surrounded; in G.I. slang, the doomed party leaders were getting "bunker happy." Hitler himself deteriorated rapidly...