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Pack and his "Pibe" (Argentine slang for "The Kid") got back in time to cover Italy's fall. One night in Naples, tipped off that an Allied bigwig was arriving, they invited fellow reporters in for a binge. While Pibe got them drunk, Pack slipped out to get his interview. When the boys missed him and scrambled in pursuit, they found that he had crippled their jeeps...
Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology specializing in the first area, spices his lectures with slightly off-color anecdotes and slang, but still manages to get the subject across thoroughly. A regular in the nation's slick-papered magazines, Professor Hooton makes his courses among the most sought-after in the College...
...imagined character called the Pinkle-Ponkle, who hovered vaguely over towns. "If he were to come down," Margaret replied to all critics, "he'd find worm sandwiches and caterpillar jam-green jam." Like her father, Elizabeth worries a good deal over Margaret. "Wherever did you learn such slang?" King George once asked his younger daughter. "Oh," said Margaret, "at my mother's knee-or some such low joint...
...AMERICAN THESAURUS OF SLANG (1,231 pp.)-Lesfer V. Berrey and Melvin Van den Bark-Crowell...
...American slang breeds faster than editors can edit or printers can print. The original edition of the mammoth American Thesaurus of Slang (TIME, March 2, 1942) had more than 100,000 words & phrases in it. By the time it hit the bookstores, it was already slightly arky. Now Lester V. Berrey and Melvin Van den Bark have provided 5,000-6,000 more terms, partly teen-age talk, partly military slang, for a new, enlarged edition. A good many of the contributions sound like a disc jockey's idea of how a real, live jazz fan talks. Samples...