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They can, of course, and it is Tom Matthews' job to see that they do. His staff is familiar with patient memos which begin: "The Managing Editor views with alarm the following: 1) common misspellings (harrassed for harassed, etc.); 2) the use of retain for keep, slew for killed, reveal for anything less than the revelations of William Blake or Moses...
Down Once. Black George, founder of the line, left his swineherd's hut to become the scourge of Serbia's Turkish masters. He was a choleric, heroic breeder of pigs and rebellion. He loved corn pone, plum brandy and killing (with his own hands he slew 125 men who provoked his anger; he stabbed his stepfather, hanged his brother...
...earliest version of the legend: around 800 A.D. there lived in northwest Britain a Pictish chief named Tristan, who slew a ravening monster and married a beautiful princess. From that point on, the story grew-with embroidery and embellishments...
Prince Thag rode through the Valley of Euphoria, and birds sang "verti verti verti go." In the Forest of Jeopardy, he slew the Blue Boar (it was sound asleep...
...results are rooted in the New Deal and the Depression -e.g., forgotten man, economic royalist, horse-and-buggy days, boondoggling-as are the more ephemeral third-termite and That Man, and the alphabet soup of government bureaus (NRA, TVA). But the bulk of heavy coinage has come from a slew of irresponsible, word-happy inventors, including such Menckenian heroes as Variety's late Jack Conway (who coined baloney, S.A., high-hat, pushover, payoff, bellylaugh, palooka and scram) and the inventor of slanguage itself, Walter Winchell...