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...game is to take a word-for example, "crazy"-and try to name sets of well known lunatics, asylums, slang words meaning "crazy," madhouse apparatus and perhaps a few causes of insanity, each set composed of words beginning with letters in "crazy." Thus, "c" words in some of the different sets above suggested could be "Caligula," "cuckoo," "catnip." Under "a" could come, "authors of Guggenheim," "addled," "amusement books...
...Porters of Century-calibre seldom indulge in dice, slang or other inferior pursuits. But among "small time" porters and station "red-caps," there is a glossary...
...TIME of Jan. 3, mention was made of current collegiate slang, credited to Professor George W. Knight of the Ohio State University. The account, widely copied and commented upon, should have been credited to Professor George H. McKnight of the English Department here, an authority on words, and not to Professor George W. Knight, who for more than 40 years, has been head of the History Department here. Professor Knight has been subjected to considerable embarrassment and even some abuse, because of the mistake in names...
...would be a shame to set down one's first impression of the book; for to slang Lewis Carroll for not coming up to expectations in a collection of early fragments is pointless and positively unkind. Verse and prose, most of it is nowhere near "Alice"; and it is only when disappointment becomes too profound that something like the following comes to the reader's rescue...
...Slang term meaning electric current, used by doorbell repairmen, high school radio tinkerers, baffled babbitts. Astute Engineer Ogle would never be guilty of using such a misnomer...