Word: slang
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This is no time for protest. In union there is strength, and the slang "crabbing" must be kept out of our national vocabulary. Yet we cannot help feeling that the War Department has erred. To shelve a leader is not the easiest way to win the war. A good general in France is worth many in San Francisco...
...play was exceptionally well acted in every detail. Miss Fulton, the author, lived the title role. Never once did she lose her grasp on character or audience. Her slang was never forced, her humor was always delicate and unflagging, and she extracted every particle of sympathetic enjoyment from a splendid characterization. The supporting company was a wonderful relief from those we usually see here in "the provinces." Mr. Stone as the genius played a none too clearly written role with fine care and insight, while the young brother was kept simple and unaffectedly sincere by Mr. Lowe. Miss Ives played...
...before an American language is established in spite of the "janitors of our speech." Even after three hundred years of geographical separation a Bostonian understands an Englishman's conversation more readily than a Southerner's. We still manage to read English books with tolerable facility. There will be no slang lingua franca as long as the leavening influence of conservative instruction remains. In the words of Professor Palmer: "Look well to your speech...
...them can turn the tide from ordinary piffle, and keep the tone of the conversation high. By developing a discussion into something valuable, the best in student life is often expressed. From the ordinary student rocker in the top story of a rooming house may be expressed in college slang, truths which are as great as any which were exhaled from the Greek oracles. Students thus decide to their own satisfaction some of the fundamental questions which otherwise they might never have figured out. A wealth and variety of experiences, and a healthy difference of opinion, all of these...
...perhaps read to the end to discover whether the unconscious man may be the murderer's victim recrudescent. We are not greatly gratified at the final revelation, since it has been intimated that the notices are everywhere. Mr. Rogers' personages are more amusing in their names and their slang than in their craft. The German tag with the questioning accent is a high point of humour. It is to be feared, however, that to the reviewer of "Man and Superman" it might seem like "one of the harmless stupidities with which Shaw covers his essentially undramatic plot...