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Stooge is defined on page 2,484 of Webster's New International Dictionary as "a foil, esp. for a comedian. Theatr. Slang...
Around this melancholy setup, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse has written his 45th book, a dead ringer for other Wodehouse fantasies with its collection of imbecilic gentlemen, appallingly mistaken identities, mouth-filling English slang and story that sizzles and fusses as senselessly as water spilled into hot grease. Not a humorist in an ironic or satirical sense of the term, Wodehouse gets away with comic murder by a species of inspired silliness that is funny only because it is so uninhibited and because it goes on so tirelessly. In Laughing Gas, his plot involves a transfer of personality between the child star...
...serving with the British troops. Readers accustomed to scathing portraits of U. S. citizens in British and European fiction are likely to be taken aback by Vera Brittain's eloquent, recurring, heartfelt tributes to U. S. generosity, youth, bravery, virility, as well as by the strange slang she attributes to her U. S. characters. Ruth gives herself to her U. S. lover, is heart broken after his death in the Argonne that she did not bear his child. On a famine relief mission in Russia after the War, she meets Janet's son, marries him, plunges into politics...
...Well, I've said enough; but, in pure Australian slang I'll sum up by saying, 'the studies stoushed Amherst, chased the Bruins up a gum tree, and showed that they had the dinkum oil by playing dinki-di football.' Translating this into the King's English (or--in this country of alphabetical politics--into FDR English) this means that the Harvard squad won two victories by playing good football. Now for the Army...
...William decided that to be admitted a word must have originated in the U. S., or disappeared in England since it arrived in the U. S., or changed its meaning since immigration from England. A candidate must have been in use before 1900. This ruled out slang† since Sir William found: "Slang and dialect words . . . can be treated with proper fulness only in separate dictionaries...