Word: slang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tailor-Made Man. Grant Mitchell returns as John Paul Bart, the socially-soaring pants-presser who. despite his outmoded slang (twelve years) is still very funny...
From years of relative isolation from other student bodies, a system of slang is unique to the Corps. For example, the word "soiree" is used as a noun to mean an unpleasant task, and as a verb to mean "to inconvenience." It started back in the dim ages when officers' wives used to give evening parties where the poor military guests suffered in garotte collars weighed down with gold trolley cable. It soon came to be said that anything unpleasant was as bad as a "soiree." From this one can see readily the evolution of the word to its present...
...Howard on every page. And since taste succeeds even where substance is lacking, this English triune is able to make even such vacuous foolery as Candle-Light a matter for winks and nudges. Mr. Wodehouse translated it from the German of Siegfried Geyer, embellished it with his own impish slang and metaphor. Miss Lawrence plays the part of a cuddlesome lady with a crinkly nose who accepts a blind date over the telephone and presently finds herself received by a debonair, ingenuous Prince-Mr. Howard. Asked if he has many mistresses, he observes: "They do pile up." She is even...
George Ade, humorist (Fables in Slang), rose dripping from his bath tub to answer his telephone at his summer home near Brook, Ind. He skidded, crashed, skittered down the stairs, broke his left...
...conversations often held between a certain famed young man and the bright young person whom he calls his wife. The famed young man has always found it difficult to grasp the inward significance of mathematical and other studious problems. The "wife," or in terms divorced from West Point slang, the famed young man's West Point roommate, is a "star man," standing in the first ten of the first class. He is good at all things studious. His name is J. A. K. Herbert. He is Captain of B Company...