Word: slanging
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wants to be seen and heard, whereas the successful man of the world moves about inconspicuously. He is still the center of his own world. This is what makes him . . . "an opinionated little cuss." He is as full of argument as an egg is of meat. He lives on slang. . . . There are two remedies. . . . One is a frank and outspoken attitude . . . addressed to the student, to the end that he discover antidotes to his limitations. The other, and the most effective, is . . . a full year of employment between high school and college.0...
...goods" and "smoked out." It must be probed to the bone. It will be. But the Congress must apply the probe. Mr. Daniels has been tried and found wanting. After the fourth of next March he will be chiefly remembered in the Navy for his contribution to its slang of a new synonym for a cunning falsehood. For on every man-of-war and at every shore station today, officers and men know that to tell a "Daniels" is to tell a falsehood with such cunning as to stand a good chance of not being caught. Boston Transcript...
This is no time for protest. In union there is strength, and the slang "crabbing" must be kept out of our national vocabulary. Yet we cannot help feeling that the War Department has erred. To shelve a leader is not the easiest way to win the war. A good general in France is worth many in San Francisco...
...play was exceptionally well acted in every detail. Miss Fulton, the author, lived the title role. Never once did she lose her grasp on character or audience. Her slang was never forced, her humor was always delicate and unflagging, and she extracted every particle of sympathetic enjoyment from a splendid characterization. The supporting company was a wonderful relief from those we usually see here in "the provinces." Mr. Stone as the genius played a none too clearly written role with fine care and insight, while the young brother was kept simple and unaffectedly sincere by Mr. Lowe. Miss Ives played...
...before an American language is established in spite of the "janitors of our speech." Even after three hundred years of geographical separation a Bostonian understands an Englishman's conversation more readily than a Southerner's. We still manage to read English books with tolerable facility. There will be no slang lingua franca as long as the leavening influence of conservative instruction remains. In the words of Professor Palmer: "Look well to your speech...