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...review of the movie Mr. Lucky (TIME, Sept. 20) mention is made of a "new brand of double talk (sample: 'Lady from Bristol' for 'pistol'). . . ." Rhyming slang, of which this is a specimen, has long been current among certain classes of English-speaking people, and the matter has been pretty thoroughly covered by students of slang, cant...
Cripps and the Devil. Satirist Joad's Young Soldier is "a fine specimen of young English manhood, with a more enquiring turn of mind than is sometimes found among those who have emerged from the valley of the shadow of middle-class education." When his adventures begin, he has just been listening, in his mess, to a broadcast by Sir Stafford Cripps on What We Are Fighting For. Sir Stafford said we are fighting to make a better and happier world. The Young Soldier thinks that is very nice, wonders how it is to be brought about. He decides...
...battle of Harvard Square. Others have suffered fractured bones and various versions of lumbago, but these ailments are not of a permanent nature. There's no redeeming a front tooth lost in a touch football game. Jack's only satisfaction lies in showing the boys what a perfect specimen it is, as it sparkles in solitary pearliness--in the palm of his hand...
Local ichthyologists are ecstatic today, for the world's only known specimen of a fresh-water shark is a weakened trophy in the basement of the University Museum. His name is Carcharinus Nicaraguensis, and it took the President of Nicaragus, an Army engineer, and three expeditions to get him here...
...Bible necessarily or any external application of dogma, but a renewal of respect for man as a receptacle of spiritual truth and a renewal of inner integrity and self-belief. The way to self-understanding in our present mess, Wylie thinks, is clear-headed criticism, a sample specimen of which he offers in this book. Sometimes his love of a fancy phrase runs away with him, especially in the amusing and one-sided chapter on Mom, but the book was intended to stimulate thought in others rather than to present a positive plan or doctrine, and it fulfills this purpose...