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...Australian slang "Bovril!", according to despatches describing Mark Gosling's misfortunes last week, is equivalent to "Applesauce...
...have no definite way of knowing. He is now commonly reported to be far less "collegiate" than he was even ten years ago, less excited over athletics and other college activities, more interested in week ends in neighboring cities. He is described as sophisticated, conservative and, in college slang, a "smoothie." Pondering such characterizations, it occurred to us to compare what the graduating senior today thinks of life and literature, as so inadequately revealed in one of the annual questionnaires, with the opinions of his predecessor of ten years...
...current issue of the Atlantic Monthly George Arliss and Frank Vizetelly have admirably touched on the vagaries of modern diction. East side, West side, Limehouse, or Mayfair, Mr. Arliss believes in adopting the general mode of pronouncing his words and has little objection to enriching the language with slang. He is chiefly disturbed by lazy and careless delivery of words which characterizes many Americans...
...experiences, is written with the sure touch of a skillful story-teller who deals with a theme he is fitted to handle with the unmistakable mark of sincerity. Although Mr. Gibbs has been living for some time in America, "Chances" is English to the last idiom of British slang. It belongs in the general category of novels that deal with the reserved, sensitive, pipe-smoking boys who were England's junior officers in France. Those readers who enjoy hearing about the boys "playing cricket" at the front line will be willing to take "Chances" with Mr. Gibbs...
Sirs: TIME is so vital, so alive, so circumspect in selecting the right word that I grieve at your continued use of the obsolete term Tycoon. Why not replace it with Big Shot? Everyone knows what Big Shot means. It is more than slang-it is part of the American language. It would fit in with your telling and picturesque phrases. And even the Big Shots rather thrill at the term Big Shot. E. G. KYTE...