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Evening Star, Issue 19197, 13 March 1926, Page 3

We are all studying and speaking American now, says the ‘ Daily Chronicle,’ and advanced students already condemn such outworn phrases as “ jfou boob ” and “ He's a prize mutt.- Such may like to study the following literary bouquet from an American paper—no reward is offered for translation;—“ I skun up the stairs, kid those roughnecks along, the wallop in the velvet mitt, to horn in, to spring the holier-than-thou, give him the razz for fair, stewed to the gills, dressed up like a plush horse . . , slob, lyap, pep, gaff, buck, hunk, simp . . . poor fish, poor sock, poor boob, poor dub . . . piker ... kov-noter,. some sfnear, he: the heries, where do you get that stuff, put on lugs?” Something, at any rate, seems to have happened.