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...ticket-shooting trick that gave free passes to baseball games and other exhibitions their slang name of "Annie Oakleys." President Ban Johnson of the American Baseball League once caught a man who had rented out his season pass. The pass was found to be full of holes, whereupon President Johnson made a remark, the aptness of which his subordinates never forgot: "Looks like Annie Oakley'd been shootin...
Laff That Off-A rickety vehicle for slang...
...slang epithet equivalent to the slang phrase "putting on airs...
...this case, there will be no discomfort. Males who have worn raccoon coats and oiled their hair; who have exchanged a million vapidities in fraternity houses; who have envied the head cheerleader, preened their slang, toddled all night, slaved for watch charms; and the girls they haye petted on sorority porches, girls with giddy shingles and cooing "lines"; girls with "dates" and pledge pins, innocent thirsts, crushes on young instructors, favorite love lyrics, proud independence and timid curiosity about Freud-these and their guardians, too, professors of both sexes, young and old, comfortably pedantic or secretly frustrate, testily brainy...
...agree on many things; and in one strong-minded man's appreciation of another's "beautiful thinking machine." Also, Mr. Bok, with a self-educated man's capacity for admiring education in others, never ceased to marvel at Mr. Wilson's command of language, including slang. He even asked Mr. Wilson once how he came by his facile diction, and the then president of Princeton is said to have explained: "From my father. He had a reverence for words, and he would never allow us to misuse a word. Not only would he point...