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...called "Harvard accent" is actually acquired at the college, or whether it is merely a prep school affectation. The different accents from the middle west, from Boston, from New York, can all be exactly determined and the difference noted. Also the various lads of speaking and current slang expressions will be amusing when heard several years hence. Thus the opportunity for research, both pleasant and enlightening, is boundless...
...shorts. While in The Ace, she used to fly to Paris every week-end to see the races at Longchamps. Her first Hollywood contract contained a clause making it compulsory for her to speak perfect English in 100 days. Before the time expired, studio officials made her stop using slang, which she learned from Maurice Chevalier. Ignoring the current vogue for inaccessibility in imported film players, Ketti Gallian appeared at parties all dressed up, gave interviews with zest. She managed to keep her weight down riding a bicycle and swimming. Less sexy than many importations, she has a quick charm...
...United States Military Academy (West Point, N. Y.) is not the honor it is at most institutions. "A. B." is cadet slang for area bird a cadet being disciplined by being obliged to walk punishment tours...
With a clear head on which grows little hair, a good sense of humor which often takes a literary turn despite a fondness for slang in ordinary conversation, an indifference to formality which comes out in slipshod clothes, Chairman Garrison, with his colleagues, has decided in two months more questions than the old Labor Board did in nine. Last week they undertook to decide the biggest and most vexing question of the year for Labor and Industry: What does Section 7 (a) of the Recovery Act mean...
...Busker-stage slang for a hireling who echoes a stage song from the gallery...