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...clarinet, but Freddie says he always broke the reed just before school band practice. When he was 21 and able to keep a reed intact, Freddie bought a dinner jacket and got a job in an Orpheum Circuit band. Later Freddie Fisher thought up the name "Schnickelfritz" (German slang for silly fellow), and assembled five men to play a permanent date in a tavern in Winona, Minn. Frankly out to build up a novelty band rather than one which would be noted for its music, Freddie signed up two cards like himself for the front row- Stanley Fritts, who could...
Elected captain of Princeton University's golf team was Fumitaka Konoye, 22, class of 1938, son of Japan's new Premier, Prince Fumimaro Konoye. Short, stocky, usually laughing, Son Konoye is golf champion of Princeton, speaks perfect English (including slang). Next to golf his best sports are boxing and riding. He is majoring in politics, also likes Spanish, music, psychology. Proposed career: Diplomacy. His room in Pyne Hall, where he lives with Stuart Aitkin of Bala, Pa., is plastered with cartoons from Esquire...
Sirs: Where did you get the word "jalopy" for junked auto ? I cannot find it in any dictionary-Oxford, Merriam, slang...
...Jalopy," "jaloppi" -or "jollopy" (Weseen's Dictionary of American Slang}-has for years been the name used by U. S. second-hand car dealers and taxi drivers for an exhausted automobile. Possible derivation: jalap, a purgative root...
...into practice. He raised the rigging in the boat to give more clearance above his oarsmen's thighs, thus permitting more leg power. He cut short the "lay-back," theretofore considered the most essential part of the stroke. Unfamiliar with nautical terms, Connibear coached his crews in baseball slang. Before his first big race, the Washington faculty tried to have him ousted. After it, when Washington had beaten California, he was a Washington hero...