Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heading the stage show is the team of Jee Bateese, comedians of the National Broadcasting Company, who come to the Metropolitan direct from a tour of New England. Another prominent feature on the stage is the Hal Sands production. "A Parisian Underworld" with Mazzone and Keene, Leonard and White and Helen Windsor heading the company who perform acrobatic and dance feats...
...Microbe Hunters. . . . Paul de Kruif and I were long ago associated as contributors to Hearst's International Magazine when he was writing a series of articles on problems of medicine and I, God save us!, was writing a series on the evils of dope in the underworld...
...propaganda at this very moment. Every means of intellectual expression at once falls to the purpose of perpetuating the intelligent regime. That in itself should give unlimited life to any dictatorship strong enough to weather its own adolescence, since an opposition without a voice is as inaudible as the underworld and can be treated as such under those circumstances...
...fictional account. The murderer is obviously a sexual pervert, a fact that is brought out beautifully and skillfully--who finds himself ruled by an insatiable desire to murder small children. In satisfying his passion he terrorizes the city: the police unable to find him, take to rounding up the underworld: whereupon gangland sets out to get the murderer in order to save themselves. They succeed and give him a mock trial, but before they can kill him the police rush in and the picture ends on a weak note...
...small Hearst column contains wisecracks like "ears like handles on a loving cup" which are the opposite of slang. Ring Lardner, who died a week after Sime Silverman, was usually careful to avoid inventions of his own, stuck close to the jargon of baseball. Columnist Damon Runyon mixes authentic underworld talk with invented freaks. Gelett Burgess' The Goops contributed a less valuable word than Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt. George Ade's Fables in Slang were funnier than real slang. Gene Buck, who, Mr. Funk said last week, had once told him he "was responsible for 100 words...