Word: blackpool
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...corresponding classes in England. H. L. Mencken proves this point thoroughly in his masterly study The American Language -if, indeed, it needs proving, which it does not. The lowest and "toughest" holiday crowd at Coney Island uses better speech, and far better manners, than the mob at Margate, Blackpool, Brighton or Southend. Mr. Dowse contradicts himself when he refers to "amiable qualities" and then states that the conspicuous examples of "the latter" are too long to rewrite. The oft-repeated and hackneyed objection to "famed," "one," "onetime," and "able," is a poor substitute for criticism, and in any case there...