Word: dialect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Weitzenkorn. At 16, as a cub reporter on the Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times-Leader, he had begun a long journalistic stint. He had worked on the New York Times, the Tribune, the Call, the World. When he was Sunday editor of the World, Editor Weitzenkorn saw some funny Yiddish dialect by one of his cartoonists. Colleagues said nobody outside The Bronx would understand it but Editor Weitzenkorn printed and let millions laugh at Milt Gross's "Nize Baby...
...Vanity Fair and other smartcharts Author Keene's piquant stories have been appearing side by side with more mature work. Mostly the characters are English in names and dialect while the style has more than an air of Russian futility. This compilation contains Author Keene's idea of his best stories to date. Typical is "The Latch-Key," a story wherein a girl returns to her apartment on the eve of her marriage to find a discarded lover's compromising revenge: suicide in her supposedly virginal...
...drawing board on a raised dais, gazes regally down on callers. He is a connoisseur of dress, food, coffee. At his home in Danbury, Conn. he makes his own electricity, tinkers with household machinery, plays Bach and Mozart on the phonograph. He also tells innumerable stories in dialect, including the Finnish...
...TIME, Sept. 17). The trouble has been to keep the new, distinct, simple characters from being corrupted by the addition of old-style Turkish flourishes. Many a young Turk, once he has mastered the new letters at a Government school, goes home to his village and soon develops a "dialect alphabet" which only his closest intimates can read. How to wipe out this maddening balk of progress? Obviously, with typewriters...
STREET SCENE-Pulitzer Prizewinning sequences of love, dialect and death in Manhattan's brownstone belt (TIME...