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...remark that the King James version is the greatest monument in English prose, yet religious zealots are constantly building cheap imitations of the original in order to appeal to the crowd. It is to be marvelled at that no attempt has yet been made to translate Shakespeare into contemporary slang, such a translated would have as logical reason for existence as does Doctor Moffat's translation of the Bible...
Social analysis, pages from the history of emotions, both, or neither--Shaw has clothed his thoughts in a raiment of words well-nigh Biblical in their majesty and beauty. With these he mixed current slang in a fashion as masterly as it is dramatic. He smiles, he sneors, he argues, he cries aloud, he speaks with the wisdom of the ages--but always there are the French, the English, and Joan...
...American slang is injected into the plays, plots are changed around, endings are shifted, and the plays is ruined. The endings of tragedies are changed from death to love, so that the audience will come out saying, "a kiss at the end, this is life!' It is all wrong...
...High brow," the definition implied by Newspaperdom, is a loose, archaic slang-word, absurd in its application to the normal, intelligent people for whom TIME is written...
...girl who decided with difficulty between him and the vigorous captain of the squadron. The second act of the play brings the drama of war on the lines into intense, if slightly conventional, relief. The locale of the other acts is on Long Island. College men bandy injudiciously selected slang and punch each other to display affection. Winifred Lenihan gave her usual flawless performance as the heroine, while lesser flights of excellence are provided by Humphrey Bogart and Mary Philips...