Word: winther
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nearly 10,000 Danes had shelled out 4.50 kroner ($1) apiece for a 78-page, 3,000-word guide to U.S.A.-Slang. The lexicographers: Danish Newsmen Victor Skaarup and Kris Winther. To keep up to the minute and sometimes an hour or so ahead, Skaarup and Winther had listened to U.S. newscasts and radio comedians, swapped letters with Variety's Editor Abel Green and studied his slangy tradepaper of "show biz." (Said Green, washing his hands of some of their definitions: "They're talking smörgasbord slanguage...
According to Skaarup and Winther, a bobby-soxer is a flapper; ladies' undies are called twilights; a drizzle is a boy who always walks with the same girl; and when you say attaboy, you mean either bravo, get at it again, or a member of an air transport auxiliary corps. After consulting the dictionary, Danes would have no trouble following the English dialogue of such Hollywood hits as Himlen kan vente (Heaven Can Wait), might tackle the best-selling Der gror et Trae i Brooklyn in the original...
Ready to marry were Bob Feller, chief specialist in the Navy, and Virginia Winther, a clerk at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Chicago...
...Boeing's women employes is Mrs. Sophus Keith Winther, wife of an English professor at the University of Washington. Mrs. Winther worked one 45-day stretch on the assembly line (eight hours a day) without noticeable fatigue. War defeats do not depress her; they make her work harder...