Word: slangs
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Special features: Every sense of every word is dated. Reason for present spelling and pronunciation of difficult words is given. Idioms, often comparatively neglected, are defined, illustrated. Dialect words in general use, slang and colloquialisms are included...
...Wells' latest novel were a bit greater, the word "Blup" would doubtless join the Sargasso Sea of English Slang, and if Mr. Wells were not quite so competent in his own regular way, "Blup" would no doubt never be heard of. The theme of the novel is based on the same stale social satire which has been poured by the hogs-heads from the dripping quills of surviving English radicals of the nineties and of American cynics of the twenties. The hero is a prig conceived to be representative of the insignificant conservative. The author explains, by the story, that...
Before leaving, the Marines sold to the Nicaraguan Government their Managua headquarters, their tennis courts, golf links, parade grounds. †Marine slang for lover...
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...
...World's syndicate contracts. Instead, beginning May 1, a young understudy, Bernard Dibble, creator of "Danny" in the Graphic, would carry on. Rudolph Dirks's "Captain & the Kid's" which began as "The Katzenjammer Kids" (katzenjammer, literally "cat's cry," means "hangover" in contemporary German slang) is the oldest color page with a continuous existence in newspaper history. The World had the first of all U. S. colored comic strips, "The Yellow Kid"-a gamin whose street argot later gave rise to the term "yellow journalism"-produced by the late Richard Felt on ("Buster Brown") Outcault...