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Winston Churchill stood firm against a piece of U.S. slang in the House of Commons. When a member who was questioning him referred to "a stooge," shocked cries of "Oh!" went up all over the chamber. Snapped the Prime Minister: "I am not prepared to answer a question couched in such very unseemly terms...
...present-aside from pointing up the patter of visiting entertainers-is doing the script for Yankee Doodle Doo, a radio show starring Vic Oliver, Winston Churchill's son-in-law. The program goes out to U.S. and British troops, hopefully designed to teach them each other's slang, humor, point of view...
...Slang & Cant...
...review of the movie Mr. Lucky (TIME, Sept. 20) mention is made of a "new brand of double talk (sample: 'Lady from Bristol' for 'pistol'). . . ." Rhyming slang, of which this is a specimen, has long been current among certain classes of English-speaking people, and the matter has been pretty thoroughly covered by students of slang, cant...
...Radio programs were cleaned up drastically, obnoxious commercials banned or cut down to 100 words between programs, classical music made compulsory at least once daily, serials, quiz shows, announcements and song lyrics* subjected to strict censorship to cut out slang and uplift the cultural level...