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...Landon's audience of some 20,000 -10,000 less than were expected-listened to his best speech attentively but with no loud enthusiasm. The only really lusty cheer went up when the nominee lapsed into slang to condemn the slapdash Revenue Act of 1936. That his tax blast at the New Deal was no dud, however, became politically plain as potent Democrats rushed forward to dispute, deny and denounce his criticism...
Hoople connoisseurs particularly admired Cartoonist Ahern's extravagant poolroom slang, in which slow race horses are called "turf turtles" or "land crabs," a crap game is described as a "few knuckles of dice...
...readers may be annoyed to discover that Crusader Herbert ignores U. S. English, tacitly assumes that it is a provincial monstrosity. Of U. S. slang he says "it is one part 'natural growth' and nine parts a nervous disorder. It is St. Vitus's Talk." He opens a big door, then hastily slams it, when he admits: "The step from foul American slang to valuable English idiom is sometimes very short"-then changes the subject. He further weakens his case for Royalist English by attacking the divine right of dictionaries, even the Oxford (but he bows...
...Saturday Night (Twentieth Century-Fox) bathes its audience in an atmosphere of homey sweetness which should make the picture a success at any neighborhood playhouse. Mr. Evers (Jed Prouty) is the father of a "typical American family." He has a spry old mother (Florence Roberts) whose two loves are slang and coffee, a complacent wife (Spring Byington), five children who exemplify all the traditionally wholesome traits of youth. Bonnie (June Lang) is the 18-year-old apple of her father's eye except that she goes around with Clark Newall (Thomas Beck), spoiled son of the idle rich. Jack...
...Smith declined the appointment of President Coolidge as U. S. Commissioner of Education. He has always been an objector to politics in education, and has led drives against slang and immoral movies. He holds honorary degrees from the University of Maine, Bates College, Bowdoin College, Rhode Island State, and Norwich University...