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...mouse war. It was with joy indescribable that the newsgatherers learned the name of the mouse catcher the U. S. Biological Survey was sending?one S. E. Piper. They played up this coincidence for all it was worth, longing to call Houseman Piper "pied" but realizing that the slang connotationf would be slanderous...
...Slang phrase meaning "In act in the grand manner," used by fresh water collegians, vaudeville actors, street sheiks...
...Newsstand-buyer Spahling's meaning is obscure but presumably "hister," pronounced with the "i" long, means "hoister" or "beer-hoister," slang noun.-ED. † The print order of this issue is 154,000 copies...
...Harlequins and Sganarellos of the Venetian comedy; subjects which are treated in full page advertisements today, were touched off in light repartee on the trestles and boards of Italy two and a half centuries ago. All I have done, in many instances, is translation putting down the current slang instead of the forgotten expressions...
Samuel G. Blythe, famed Saturday Evening Post writer, once wrote: "A gob is a sailor, a man of the American navy, a bluejacket, and the term is self-applied." TIME preferring the authority of Admiral-Subscriber Irwin, will relegate the word to the category of objectionable slang...