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"Tennyson is the most appreciated of the English poets. The ear of even one unused to English can catch the beauty of his lines. But we have difficulty in understanding your poets like Browning whose meaning is hidden."
And with a mighty meaning of a kind
Comment. M. Bukharin, editor of the Pravda, explains this metamorpho sis of Communism as due to a new-conception of the means of attain ing Socialism, meaning that, in opposition to Red terrorism, "the proletarian State must get a hold upon the chief commanding heights of industry and commerce; then...
True slang is born of sudden inspiration, or actual need for a specifying word. It strengthens the language until that time arrives when its meaning has been so twisted and broadened that it becomes no longer respectable. Either it will escape this calamity and become a real word, or like...
In London, it was announced that the new Oxford English Dictionary, now being compiled, would include and define English slang expressions coined during the War, such as: "dud," "doughboy," "strafe." The expression "Getting the wind up," meaning "to become nervous," was said to be puzzling the lexicographers, who finally decided...