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...County Chairman, adapted from oldtime Slangster George Ade's play produced in 1903, Chairman Rogers makes his law partner a candidate for prosecuting attorney to oppose the pompous rascal who stole the woman Rogers loved in his youth. Complications arise from the fact that the Rogers candidate (Kent Taylor) loves the opponent's daughter (Evelyn Venable...
...city, is a dungeon-like room with high dirty windows. A long table, two incredibly battered desks, a telephone booth and a chipped enamel cuspidor make up its office equipment. Around the walls are photographs of unidentified prizefighters and film actresses, a framed obituary of Variety's late Slangster Jack Conway, a yellowed clipping of a newspaper sermon entitled "Success," a picture of a nude dancer with a large ostrich-plume fan, inscribed: ''To the reporters of West Side Court, gratefully and sincerely, Sally Rand...
...When a slangster cocks an eyebrow and rasps "Oh, yeah?" some people feel faintly bilious. But when a pundit uttered the phrase last week at the Milwaukee meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English, he stirred his hearers to academic enthusiasm. The "yea" in the Bible, said Supervisor of English Max John Herzberg of Newark's public schools, is the "yeah" of today. Beowulf or any other early Briton would have pronounced it in the same manner if not with the same irritating inflection. Also, said Supervisor Herzberg, the use of "them" for "those" is no modern...
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