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...pamphlets she got from the U.S. Embassy were of little help ("They had too much propaganda that America is wonderful. It is wonderful. But you don't throw it at the Poles that way. You lead them up to it"). Some of her pupils wanted to learn U.S. slang ("Anne is such a good teach"); others wanted to know about boogie-woogie...
...Marine slang for Japanese rocket bombs...
...make such a marriage possible, Rank has duded up his productions and slowed down their dialogue for the U.S. eye and ear. He has worked at keeping out unintelligible Britticisms and is careful with American slang. He has upped his annual publicity budget from ?250,000 to ?1,000,000. He has borrowed Hollywood stars to reflect glory on his own stars in British pictures. He has sent his own stars to pick up more reflected glory in Hollywood films...
...Moslem customs," witchcraft in the U.S., water lilies and other aquatic plants, the Democratic National Convention of 1912 ("I was there"), labor unions in Eastern Pennsylvania, the French horn, the U.S. textile industry and its ramifications, commercial fishing, religious orders of the Episcopal Church, French schools, Russian art, Australian slang, Washington, D.C. bureaucracy ("as distinct from political & diplomatic Washington"), dairy farm terminology, Sauk Centre, Minn., water polo, Austrian dialects, the game of Go, harness racing...
...only imitations in this country but for one I have discovered in the Finger Lakes of New York State." Those who meet him and withdraw at an apparent forbidding austerity soon learn that Gropius possesses a keen sense of humor (hampered somewhat by an incomplete appreciation of American slang) and the greatest warmth for people who are young-in years or in ideas. At Robinson Hall his carefully screened graduate students from the four corners of the earth hold him in something close to worship. One Czech girl exploded: "We're all in love with...