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...DICTIONARY OF SLANG AND UNCONVENTIONAL ENGLISH - Eric Partridge - Macmillan ($12.50). Scholarly and gallant 999-page attempt to list the flood of "colloquialisms and catchphrases, solecisms and catachreses, nicknames, vulgarisms and such Americanisms as have been naturalized" (40,000 entries in all) by an English lexicographer...
...united too in refusing to stomach what they call the "British insult" de livered when George VI invited Haile Selassie to send a native delegation "to represent the Ethiopian Emperor at the Coronation." This hot quarrel last week made sure of a snub in Rome for British Ambassador Sir Eric Drummond when he called to ask the Italian Foreign Office whether further Italian troops were being landed in Spain through the British fleet now assigned to blockade its west coast. Attitude of Count Ciano, the Italian For eign Minister and son-in-law of Il Duce, was that the British...
JUAN IN CHINA - Eric Linklater - Farrar & Rinehart...
...Tories who like to chuckle over their cigars, Eric Linklater is the right sort of company. His Juan in America (TIME, May 4, 1931), a clever but kindly satire on the U. S., tickled many a reader pink...
Juan in China, a continuation of his picaroon-hero's progress, is longer between laughs, thinned at times to the gin-&-water consistency of the late lightly lickerish Thorne Smith. Frankly a farce, Juan in China is a further disappointment to those who still hoped better things of Eric Linklater, a further confirmation to those who never expected anything better. But since by this week Juan has gone halfway home to England, hopeful readers still looked forward, thought what a really good time he and they might have if he ever gets there...