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...hick-meets-city-girl situation. This version has Gary Cooper as a musty grammarian who goes to the masses in search of live vernacular. Inevitably, he meets Barbara Stanwyck, who is a night-club warbler with Gene Krupa's orchestra. She talks a Hollywoodish brand of slang that will leave even the boys from Lindy's open-mouthed...
...bright lexicon of U.S. slang, Brooklyn-reared Cinemactress Barbara Stanwyck added her two cents' worth. When her director and a pair of writers, working on Ball of Fire, were stymied for a line, she volunteered: "I'll just walk up . . . and say, 'What's buzzin', Cousin?' That's the way we do it in Brooklyn...
With its bawdy 16th Century English translated into modern slang, "Gammer Gurton's Needle" will convulse Lowell House after its annual Christmas and birthday dinner honoring President A. Lawrence Lowell, emeritus, Friday, December...
Despite their understandable urge to make haste, British tyros usually need plenty of grooming. They are not too well acquainted with machines, three-fourths of them have never learned to drive a car, and their judgment of speed is limited or nonexistent. Baffled by U.S. slang, most of them need informal instruction before they get the hang of it. Not long ago, a U.S. instructor in a plane with a 21-year-old British youngster advised him to "give her the gun." Said the youth: "But, sir, I have no gun. In England we are not allowed to carry them...
With American food, plumbing, friends, and slang, the staff confounds the staid Englishman who still considers his American cousins a little queer...