Word: compendium
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Dictionary of American Slang, compiled by Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner. A handy compendium of berserk English, from Abe's cabe to zooly...
Remarkably enough, there have been few really satisfactory dictionaries of American slang. H. L. Mencken made his prodigious contribution (The American Language), and Lester Berrey and Melvin Van den Bark produced their useful but not fundamental compendium (The American Thesaurus of Slang). Standing up well against the competition, Dr. Harold Wentworth, editor of the American Dialect Dictionary, and Stuart Berg Flexner, Cornell and University of Louisville philologist, have produced a handy, invaluable reference work that may well emerge as the standard in the field. In short, the authors have done a remarkably fly and dicty...
Business, which after querying travel agents and knowing TIME correspondents in every major country of Europe, presents an intimate compendium of prices and pourboires, foods and festivals, hotels and hot spots for the summer...
...modern Medici has stocked his 45-room Manhattan mansion on East 93rd Street with sculptures, now owns some 50-odd pieces that form a handsome compendium of sculpture over the past 130 years. Rose had no plans for parting with any of it until last year, when he got a letter from the mayor of Jerusalem, inquiring about his ideas for the collection and informing him that a local art show had drawn 600,000 visitors. "That spelled hunger," Billy says, "real hunger for art. Why, the total population is only around 2,000,000. It's like...