Word: malaprop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Personality (in his case, that of a malaprop with a Spanish accent) has paid Cugat well. Last year his records, radio, film and nightclub work grossed a million dollars, perhaps the highest income ever earned by a bandleader...
...long list of stars must take a back seat to Paramount's latest find, though Ed Gardner's many fans could have told us years ago about this new-found "Maggotism, personal maggotism." This modern Malaprop steals the show with his classic but chering of the King's English, and his latest crack about Duffy and his money--"That guy, if he can't take it with him to Heaven, positively won't go!"--more than atones for the rest of the ordeal...
Samuel Goldwyn, famed as Hollywood's greatest Malaprop, arrived in England on a special mission for FEA, spent a day among the Oxfordons as the guest of Balliol's dean. To students he made a promise: "For years I have been known for saying 'include me out,' but ... I am giving it up forever. From now on let me say: 'Oxford . . . include...
...master inopportunist is Ohio's political Malaprop. Senator Robert A. Taft. Last week Mr. Taft came out flatly for the most politically unpalatable of tax bills...