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...gentlemen, you have often aroused my admiration for your frequently delightful choice of words, as well as for your apt new use of many an old one. I bow humbly to your practiced use of almost an industrial idiom, but, never did I expect you to jump the track when confronted with a commuter electric line like the C.A. & E. I'll bet your description popped circuit breakers all the way from the front platforms of the shiny new C.A. & E. cars clear back to the power house. . . . Don't you agree "chuffed" just...
...realist among a group of romantic faddists, provides the tongue with which the hirsute wit is able to spit his epigrams on man, war, and the state of things. Duvey, wagging the tongue weakly on this stage, managers, from time to time, to reiterate--in slightly more colorful idiom--that "diseretion is the better part of valor" and that "he who fights and runs away..." The play might to disregarded in favor of its preface, which, unfortunately, was not circulated beforehand...
...well remember the astonishment with which, as a newly naturalized American citizen, I first saw TIME Magazine. I thought that I had gained a working knowledge of America and the American idiom through dictionaries and constant reading of the New York Times, but I nearly gave up when I saw the miniature package of world events between the covers of TIME. Names mentioned in the telegram-like articles were usually unknown to me; parts of its contents seemed incomprehensible, others without meaning. The pushed-together political reviews which, like other stories coming from dozens of sources, were all strung through...
...Feather is in order. Mr. Feather is another one of our imported critics and as such labors under some of the same handicaps that were sketched here in a previous column about Hugues Panassie. As an arranger and composer he hasn't acquired quite enough of the American jazz idiom. "Mop Up," "My Ideal" and numerous other Commodore records handled by Feather on which numbers of big guns in the jazz world have emitted nothing but pops illustrate comprehensively his type of cramping, pseudo-modernistic, flagrantly artificial arrangements. Here we have the reverse of the King Midas situation...
LaGuerre is a good example of the kind of journalist it takes to do the kind of foreign political reporting you expect to get from TIME. He has an intimate knowledge of French politics; he also knows the American idiom. He spent his boyhood in San Francisco, where his father was a French consular official. He stayed there long enough to graduate from high school and to pick up an unquenchable enthusiasm for American baseball. He completed his education in England and France and, as a private in the French army, was evacuated from Dunkirk. Charles de Gaulle rescued...