Word: thesauruses
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...Wright names the Calumet horses as most owners do-starting with the names of the sire and dam, going on from there with the aid of dictionaries, Roget's Thesaurus, friends' suggestions, etc. She has found that horses named after friends seldom turn out well...
...AMERICAN THESAURUS OF SLANG (1,231 pp.)-Lesfer V. Berrey and Melvin Van den Bark-Crowell...
American slang breeds faster than editors can edit or printers can print. The original edition of the mammoth American Thesaurus of Slang (TIME, March 2, 1942) had more than 100,000 words & phrases in it. By the time it hit the bookstores, it was already slightly arky. Now Lester V. Berrey and Melvin Van den Bark have provided 5,000-6,000 more terms, partly teen-age talk, partly military slang, for a new, enlarged edition. A good many of the contributions sound like a disc jockey's idea of how a real, live jazz fan talks. Samples...
...been generally supposed, and even publicly stated, that the only purpose behind the boxes which have run over my signature is a kind of aimless invective, a form of egocentric iconoclasm. Within these limits, the adjectives applied have attained the bulk of a thesaurus...
...recent Jap-like stab in the back by a self styled amateur poet brings us to our feet, pen in hand and a curse on our lips. The "Light," so called, obviously minus his collegiate and Roget's Thesaurus is forced to rely on pilfered phrases such as "peasant," borrowed from those he seeks to persecute. These cowardly and poorly-rhymed attacks on our person by this word starved urchin of the Missouri wastelands are designed only to throw the spotlight of ridicule upon us, thus freeing the richly deserving J. Bernard Mathes, whose unshaven face grins stupidly before...