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Lion Feuchtwanger, German novelist (Jew Suss, Success), got publicity by displaying the U. S. slang he had picked up en route to the U. S. from novelist Joseph Hergesheimer. Said he: "The trip was okay. It was swell and it was not lousy...
Under the leadership of Professor Seamus O'Casey, Dublin schoolmasters last week began a campaign to have all talking pictures made in Gaelic. Said Headmaster O'Casey: "It is bad enough when a boy acknowledges an order with the reply, 'Okay, chief,' but imagine the position of a headmistress who is addressed in a nasal drawl with the words, 'Okay, baby...
Before a flock of newshawks, Gangster Capone became expansive: ". . . Say, this is great weather you have here. It beats Miami. The old homestead looks okay. . . . I've been asked if I have come home to write the story of my life. I haven't. It would probably make a lot of money. The last bid I had was $2,000.000. . . . I saw a piece in one of the papers about a month ago telling about how I was going into the pictures. Can you fancy that...
...courier, rushing packets of pictures to be put aboard trains at Grand Central Terminal, was accosted by a breathless, officious youngster. "Hey, wait! The office made a mistake?let's see your bundle. Yeh?they put two in for the Hartford Courant instead of one. Okay, I'll take the extra one back to the office. S'long...
...This led Major Campbell to take his men downtown. During the raids, Bartender Sam Liebreman, finding a corpse in his speakeasy, looked its burned lips over, telephoned police to come carry it away. He showed officers his own 17-gal. stock of 15? liquor, protested : "It's all okay, what I been selling. He got it somewhere else. Have a drink...