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...Durham bacon cake, caudle, flummery, ale jelly, Rissered haddie, Huntingdon fidget, Bucks bacon badger, star-gazey pie, slapjack, Bedfordshire clanger, Hindle wakes, bockings, jugged rabbit, Somerset rook pie, bog star, jellied eels, Burlington whimsey, pigs' pettitoes, Kingdom of Fife, limpet stovies, dressmaker tripe, Gooseberry Fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beverly Hills Baroque | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

...graphs and Foss's own specially devised symbols. "If we hit something good," says Foss, "we try to remember it. If something bad, we try to forget it." The technique, insist the players, is far more complex than that of jazz. "It's the difference between playing slapjack and playing bridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Classical Hipsters | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

...slapjack, to slap the seven of clubs (or other non-jack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canes | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...pamphlet outlined the courses of studies, prefaced by the statement: "There will be found immediately at the academy a troupe with a topical repertory, which will aim at the replacement of slapjack buffoonery by an 'ironical satirization of the negative side of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Clown Academy | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

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