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...standard Dictionary of American Slang, Lexicographer Maurice H. Weseen defines a "love nest" as "the home of a newly married couple." Uncovered last week in Culver City, Calif, was the most flagrant example in years of what every tabloid editor and reader means by a "love nest." None of the participants, mostly high-school students from Beverly Hills, was married...
...DICTIONARY OF SLANG AND UNCONVENTIONAL ENGLISH - Eric Partridge - Macmillan ($12.50). Scholarly and gallant 999-page attempt to list the flood of "colloquialisms and catchphrases, solecisms and catachreses, nicknames, vulgarisms and such Americanisms as have been naturalized" (40,000 entries in all) by an English lexicographer...
...involved are English considerably increases the play's novelty, for Playwright Lyndon's lawbreakers are scarcely the Edward G. Robinson type. They dress shabbily, do not use firearms and are abjectly terrified every time a tall, fatherly police sergeant appears to question or scold them. Even their slang-in which a policeman is a "rozzer," a pal is addressed as "china"- is more quaint than sinister. Thus the great million-dollar fur robbery which climaxes Dr. Clitterhouse's efficient operations is likely to remind U. S. spectators of a schoolboy raid on the jam closet. Somehow that...
...Slang, not the weak, evasive variety, but the short, vibrant phrases, bitten off neatly, inseparably linked with a harsh nasal drawl, and dear to every trans-Mississippi heart, such slang will set, many a pair of ears tingling. Frightened men are no longer gravely alarmed; they have the hell scared out of them. Superlatives are no longer the acme of this or that; they are the cat's pajamas...
Only permanent change Miss Eldridge could find was in collegiate slang...