Word: slanging
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...cannot stop, but Caniff, a dreadful procrastinator, does his best to slow it to a calm, unhurried pace. He seizes on any excuse-like the postman's arrival with fan mail-to break off work. To his assistant, Frank Engli, he is a casual boss who slings the slang along with the strips they hand back & forth for inking, lettering and checking...
Keep 'Em Guessing. Caniff's house on Tor Ridge, a spectacular modern affair-designed and owned by Neighbor Henry Varnum Poor, was a port of call for scores of flyers during the war. The tabletalk kept Caniff abreast of servicemen's slang; the grateful flyers paid their bread-&-butter calls by buzzing the house. As a favor, the Army flew him across the U.S. in a jolting 6-24, to give him the feel of it. He can "still hear the nyaaa-aaaa-aaaa of those motors-and feel the cold, going on hour after hour. Jeez...
Nearly 10,000 Danes had shelled out 4.50 kroner ($1) apiece for a 78-page, 3,000-word guide to U.S.A.-Slang. The lexicographers: Danish Newsmen Victor Skaarup and Kris Winther. To keep up to the minute and sometimes an hour or so ahead, Skaarup and Winther had listened to U.S. newscasts and radio comedians, swapped letters with Variety's Editor Abel Green and studied his slangy tradepaper of "show biz." (Said Green, washing his hands of some of their definitions: "They're talking smörgasbord slanguage...
...everybody from streetcar conductors, who crammed between corners, to the hat-check boy at the swank Dai Ichi Hotel, who couldn't keep his hats straight for studying an English grammar. In Tokyo a standard Oxford Dictionary would get you $33 last week, and two made-in-Japan, slang dictionaries that out-defined the Danish version had topped 40,000 copies apiece...
...misleading translation: paradis is French slang for a theater's cheapest, topmost balcony seats. More idiomatic translation: The Kids in the Peanut Gallery...