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In last week's issue of The New Yorker, Lexicographer H. L. Mencken* took a long look at the developing language of television. Like other barbaric dialects, Mencken found, it includes many borrowings from earlier cultures (theater, movies, radio); and TV's own coinages, as reported by Variety...
He has also been called more kinds of liar-usually from the sanctuary of Congress, a sounding board shielded from libel suits-than any man alive. Some printable samples:
Last week, the school invited him back, even had reporters there to cover his lecture. Wildman, who likes publicity, readily accepted and brought samples of his best canes with him. "Aren't they beautiful?" he asked, and thereupon launched happily into his lecture about his canes ("My canes are...
Samples, as reported by the Motion Picture Herald:
Experimenters have used radioactive carbon to follow the fat through the veins of rats, and have detected it on their breath as fast as they could collect breath samples. Unfortunately, rats have been the only successful subjects. Humans who got the shots only developed a fever and had to be...