Word: slanging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...display of verbal pyrotechnics never resorts to the archaic, however, and every nuance between the King's English and slang is both intentional and meaningful...
There are now no less than 17 recorded versions of Mack the Knife spinning across the U.S., and most of the horror has gone out of it. U.S. Composer-Author Marc Blitzstein has effectively translated the Berlin slang into American, but as Satchmo growls the words, the listener is amused rather than chilled by the corpse sinking into the river, weighted down by what Armstrong insists on calling "ceee-ments...
Londoners, who have long since succumbed to U.S. jazz, slang, movies and musical comedies, gave a less hospitable reception last week to modern U.S. art. On view at London's Tate Gallery were 209 paintings, sculptures and prints selected by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art as a sequel to its big Paris show (TIME, April 18). London critics in general frankly admitted that they found the experience "disquieting" and even "nightmarish." Decided the London Observer: "Most of these artists seem to reflect the character of a continent at once inquiring, energetic, assertive, and ill at ease...
...Cinema review of The View from Pompey's Head I note the use of the word "peckerhead." I have my own definition of this word-will you kindly provide me with yours? PERRY W. PARKER Major, U.S.A.F. (ret.) Palmdale, Calif. ¶ According to Partridge's Dictionary oj Slang and TIME'S movie reviewer, peckerhead means a kind of beak-nosed eager beaver...
...United Services College, and in Stalky & Co. wrote about it in one of the few procane, anti-self-pity books of schoolboy reminiscence ever to be produced. He was a prodigy and the only boy at school to wear glasses. They called him "Gigger" (for "giglamps," which was schoolboy slang for spectacles...