Word: slang
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Funk & Wagnall's Standard Dictionary meanings: ". . . (Slang.) A close or hard bargainer; a moneylender or usurer; an opprobrious...
...Columbian ("World's Fair") Exposition, Reporters Lillie West Brown and George Ade shared a desk in the city room of the Chicago Daily News. Reporter Ade rose to be a special writer, then dramatic editor, then conductor of a column, finally a free-lance humorist (Fables in Slang) and playwright (The Sultan of Sulu). But Mrs. Lillie West Brown?who preferred to be known as "Amy Leslie"? stayed on at the Daily News as dramatic critic for 40 years. Last week, with fanfare and accolade, the Daily News announced the retirement of the oldest U. S. woman theatre reviewer...
...Norman Foster). Her first pic- ture, For the Love of Alike (silent), did not please her; she gave up the idea of a cinema career until talking pictures came in. Cast with Maurice Chevalier in The Big Pond (not yet released), she taught him one word of U. S. slang per day, explaining what it meant in French. Her mother, who lives with her, thinks she will be as great as Sarah Bernhardt. Miss Colbert eats potatoes and eclairs without effect on her figure (103 lb.), never collects press notices, seldom socializes, has not danced with anyone except her husband...
...slash he got one night outside the church of St. Benoit-le-Bientourne. He made an indifferent living in the Paris underworld of the 15th Century, and there is evidence that he served several jail terms, committed at least one murder, suffered from venereal disease, and wrote, in underworld slang, the best French verse of his time. Not much of what scholars have found out about the real Villon is preserved in this handsomely romantic operetta based on his life. To music by-Rudolph Friml, in a story taken from an old best-seller by Justin Huntly McCarthy, Dennis King...
...warehouse apron or the plain smock of a trade. This time, for the first time, she came in as fine a dress as ever Publishing wore to wait on the Arts, Travel, Sport, Fashion or Society. And this time she spoke a cosmopolitan language instead of industrial jargon, commercial slang, financial smalltalk. This time her name was FORTUNE, a $1-the-copy, $10-the-year monthly magazine published by TIME...