Ivor Brown has been offended by a “new horror,” the Hollywood-English phrase, “team up with. The Americans always use three words when one will do—such is hustle—and for some reason or other the English surrender, saying horribly "check up on those figures’’ where "check” used pleasantly to suffice. Now we read that the lady’s shoes “Teamed up with her costume.’’ Once "suii' or "match” was good enough—and still is, for some of us.
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Southland Times, Issue 23538, 18 June 1938, Page 14
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73Page 14 Advertisements Column 2 Southland Times, Issue 23538, 18 June 1938, Page 14
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