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...older generation have learned a patois that passes for English, but they retain sentence structures from Yiddish (Pa Gross, protesting a torrent of talk: "Like a machine is gung the tunks. Like a sobvay is coming the woids-tukk, tukk, tukk!"). They put extra consonants in certain words-"udder" for or, "paintner" for painter, "finndish" for finish. They say "chonging" for charging, "serrisfied" for satisfied, "tenner" for tenant...
AGAINST THIS TORRENT - Edward Mead Earle- Princeton...
...talk which suddenly opens to leave an inference the size of a bomb crater. He has spent a great part of his years holding his tongue. Henderson is a great babbler who wakes up sounding his "A" and holds it all day, roaring through his work in a rich torrent of cuss words, grunts and bellows, like a bull of Bashan...
...flood crashed through the Mississippi levees in "a torrent ten feet deep the size of Rhode Island. . . . The south Delta became seventy-five hundred square miles of millrace in which one hundred and twenty thousand human beings and one hundred thousand animals squirmed and bobbed." In Greenville, the mayor appointed Percy chairman of the flood-relief committee and the local Red Cross. When the Negro Chicago Defender stirred up the Negroes against him, Percy went alone into their jampacked, sullen meeting, talked the mutineers back to their senses...
...Possible forerunners of a torrent of anti-Nazi films are three recent motion pictures: 1. The Mortal Storm; The Man I Married; Pastor Hall. 2. Waterloo Bridge; Fight for Life; Air Death. 3. Foreign Correspondent; To the Victor; Our Town. 4. Grey Legions ; Sky Hawks ; They Drive by Night. 5. After Bismarck; The Secret Weapon...