Word: tip
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Most thoroughly disliked, most easily located was the proletarian accent of New York City. ("He'd alwiss shoik making gah cherce.") This accent is characterized by a dentalized t (pronounced with the tip of the tongue between the teeth), by an excessively hissing s, by heavy ng sounds (e.g., "making gah" for "making a"); and by closing and diphthongizing certain vowels, so that "ask" sounds like "ay-usk" (or "ay-ust"), and "cough" sounds like "co-uff." The uneducated New Yorker seems to say "shoik" for "shirk" and "cherce" for "choice." Actually he uses the same sound, intermediate between...
...American Airways took Senator Nye's tip, at week's end announced that their transatlantic Clippers would not stop at Bermuda on eastbound trips after March 15. "With the improved weather service," the airline carefully explained, "the intermediate stop at Bermuda . . .will no longer be required." Clippers will fly to the Portuguese-owned Azores in one hop. Pan American's shuttle service between New York and Bermuda by smaller seaplanes will go on as usual...
Three Legs. His first press conference was prophetic. He swaggered in with a tricky metaphor on the tip of his tongue: Japan today is a tripod, whose legs are "disposal of the China Incident, international questions, and domestic problems. . . . A tripod cannot be stable unless all three legs are in position. . . ." He ended up having confessed he had no specific plans to end the war, no idea when the Wang Ching-wei puppetry could be set up, no more definite formula than "elimination of the causes of trouble" in clearing up the tangle of foreign relations, no economic nostrums...
Next day there came to Martha Blair a hot tip for anybody's society column: two onetime members of Washington's diplomatic set had become engaged in London...
...Palmolive Soap was ploughing the grey Pacific, Vladivostok-bound, By the time it reached Japan the Russians were too busy to wash. The Japanese, no great shakes as soap consumers themselves, let the cargo pile up storage fees for three years. Finally, Soapman Johnson got a tip: Australia needed soap. To Sydney went the lot. Australians snapped it up at 30? a cake...