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There had never been anyone like her. Tall and lissome, she was an authentic pinup, talked crisp service slang, acted the way G.I.s wished all girls did. And she preferred enlisted men, called all her eager admirers "general" or "admiral...
Sacred Cow: journalists' and politicos' slang for an untouchable subject...
Three days before he made the grammatical welkin ring, Winston Churchill was collecting an honorary degree at Columbia University. In the very home town of the American language, he was brash enough to decry the "undue reliance upon slang. In its right place slang has its virtues, but let us keep a tight hold of our own mother tongue...
Woof: engineers' slang for goodbye, similar to a reporter...
...well-done modern theatre. Guthrie McClintic uses a plain but forceful set modeled after a Grecian interior, but dresses every character in 1946 evening clothes: the lines are a strange admixture of sonorous, poetic speeches for the high-born--tragic figures in the Aristotelian sense--and lower-level American slang for the vulgar; Anouilh preserves the Greek hours, but transforms it into a single narrator reminiscent of "Our Town...