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...Labor Party Leader Major Clement Attlee was imploring voters to "Stop War! Vote Labor!" In other words he thought that the mass of British voters could be duped by catch phrases and have no true, proletarian backbone. They have not and John Bull, in John's own expressive slang, is not going to let Labor "sell a pup." John would not be duped last week into anything so fancy as Socialism, the creed of the Labor Party...
...motored to his birthplace at small Ripon, Wis., had a park named for him, received an L.H.D. from Ripon College. That night, at a banquet during the course of which an overtaxed lighting system thrice broke down, white-thatched Dr. Selfridge delighted Riponese by his vocabulary of U. S. slang...
...general the photography and synchronization are good, although the voices of one or two actors are not well recorded and the frequent use of slang makes the dialect some what hard to understand...
Most of them were newspaper career-men, highly competent, bent solely on getting the news, getting it right, getting it first. Also conspicuously on hand was an aggregation of what newspapermen call Trained Seals-cityroom slang for big-time correspondents who command huge salaries, get their names in headlines, seek color rather than fact...
Branching into elementary zoology Gillman informed the court that an ahu was a Central Asian gazelle, an ani a Brazilian variety of the keel-billed cuckoo. No slang, he insisted, was pah, which meant "bah, faugh, fudge...