The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 19, 1953, Page 10

Page 10 THE KBY WEST CITIZEN ‘Thursday, February 19, 1953 ——_——_—__— FLASH GORDON THE Buti! RACKETEER LIVES IN! TLL €O AROUND TO HUH* CLEVER, CAMOUFLAGE? CAREFUL~MAY BE. ‘SOME OF'EM DOWN "AFTER THE KILL, THE TIGER DRANK FROM THE WATER HOLE WHERE THE NATIVE HAD SCATTERED HIS WHITE POWDER--# | “evastel HE TAKES ON too AT ZEE MOCrEy WHY OON'T “THAT UNCLE HIDEOUS ANSWER MB WHEN fs HIM? LOOK AT HM! IGNORIN® ME WHEN: ~ CALL HIM = aa “= ETTA KEiT rg ADORE ROLLER } SKATING” / iis (THE AMERICAN THESAURUS OF SLANG by Lester V Berry and Melvin Van de Bark, publish- ed by .Thomas W. Crowell Co., 432 Fourth Ave., New York City, 1272 pages.) Slang is frowned upon in formal writing, and‘ cautious schol- ars use it only in decorous quotes. ‘et much of the vernacular is strong enough to withstand the of years and usage, and final- enters the respectable covers Webster’s English dictionary. For slang is the picturesque. life language. ‘It bubbles up out of the soda fountains and the army camps, the strawberry festivals and the business offices. It froths up from the underworld and the lives of vagrants, from syncopated music and from boxing matches. The: authors divide their book into two main sections, general slang and special slang. Under the first | and volition, and \space. Under special slang are words stemming from various trades, arts, sports and entertainments. . For the lover of words, the volume is not only a good refer- ence work. It is an inexhaustible cook is called some forty slang gut burglars to mess to pot rassler. shers have twenty differ- bels from bubble dancers to waiter and wai- le of dozen nick- jockey to tray two main divisions, about 50 pages are devoted to slang origins. Absquatulate, mean- ing to decamp, is explained as the peeudo-Latin reverse of squat. An- ecdotage. or reminiscent: old age PROMISE OF DELIGHT Chapter 37 i the morning Anthea went in to Mario with his coffee, Joe’s letter, and a plea for Bianca. Mario was furious, he did not want to relent and at first refused to see her. But living alone eg the white fur and gold walls, an eating Mrs. Grainger’s cooking ‘was beginning to pall. He secretly wan’ Bianca k. She ‘had looked after him for twenty years, and he was Sox ia om a cat when his habitu: ickground was disturbed. He relented, but very sternly, and Bianca with many tears, and exclamations of gratitude, and promises of eternal | servitude, was admitted into his presence. She could come back, said Mario, but any more non- sense, and it would be the end. And whatever happened to Gina, she was not. living there any more. Bianca crept into the kitchen, out to drive Mario down to the and when Anthea got the car| She went limp. By Mary Howard her thoughts miles away, auto-}Say...” he wuallealy or pe the lights, = me, stopping at traffic over changing gear, giving signals.| found the paper on The ie pe Bee oo floor, and on the steer- coming overcast with a threaten-| ing wheel her. “Take ing hint of rain. look at this.” % Why did not Joe come? “Young Film Over the common, past the sta-| Paris. Carlotti’s down the Avenue. With a]! catch of her breath, and a feel-| ist’s ing that her heart would of Gi epee i pared do’ lying 1c wh against the rain, streaking for} flo cover. She accelerated and passed | adoration — im, drew énto the curb, and as} good-! he drew level pushed the door} “We of the Buick open. “Want a lift, neighbor?” rrr pera 4 f i ceremoniously pushed her out a wet from the tain, took het wel e rain, ne} in hi i til ‘will be his arms and kissed her un! Renee s of “What have you been thinki i studio, she was busy iBbout the | 2bout me?” he said, raising his| Carlot Beginning 19 smell and look like| “Everything you can imagine | brigh the Carlottis’ home. She dusted | 824 more,” she gies te id and polished, and filled the vases| Bianca came, Se and | with flowers, and set out the table| everything. In the end. Maria of drinks, and put some tomato | ™eant more to than Gina.’ \ sauce on to simmer. The smell of| ,, “Darling Anthea, darling An- i | garlic gently permeated into the thea ... will please marry Ee eesiin il, and with it Bianca's spirits| Me, please, before anything else | ® tnd have Tine Pa oe “T would like that in writing,” | Where your birth At the studio Mario found he| ig Anthea, and then he was| “Yes. s had forgotten his portfolio. kissing er sgnes: He sirove along to. “That woman!” he said. “Why| = “Right iy and Mari flapping, a dk has a man to have women about mie ee out of the window, ‘ BNiDo you,think . ..” Anthea besliy, Cale Semana Pee ng | gam, her Heart in her eyes, and| Woking at eachother, and then | . “We'll go:in and. | itio-soared in interruption. | ood helplessly, happily, “| tificate, and | Stupk tinal Dost be oo in| these upsets iF masr'a Gariott, | come, on id carrissima! so in| these uj if I marry a lo' | hen ay ig it spoils your work! | They boas to be quite irresistible} Joe put his arm Wart 72s Maree amenity | gw you dot rst | SS wi t have forgotten as you ortfolio. Go back and get i = that’s all that matters: I was Roce there’s a sweet one. waiting until I had Mario| her himself. “Okay,” said Anthea. She| settled,” explained Joe, “But Ij have other turned the car back homewards,' can’t take another risk like that. icense?” til the last page when the current | Ferrars, murder mystery, publish- woman runs naked across a ter-|ed by Doubleday and Co., 575 race of a San Juan hotel, and her | Madison Avenue, New York City, limp body falls on a patch of|191 pages.) sand near the beach chairs. The heroine of Mr. Ferrars’ new And from Mr. Knight's descrip- | book is an English girl, Ruth Sea- tion of the lady passengers on the | bright. She is the governess of vessels and in the island hotels, | Nicky Ballard, the 15 year old son there aren’t any virtuous or semi-|of an Italian dealer in antiques, virtuous women left around Cari-|They live in a villa near Naples. bbean waters. They leap in and|Ruth doesn’t like her employer, out of berths and beds, predatory | but has remained for four years on fevered females with a most|the job because she loves Nicky. amazing lack of selection and dis-} Two dead men, both identified . | cretion. as the same man, start the mys- This reviewer also has no ob-|tery ball rolling. After that sus- jection to the restrained and suit-| pense mounts as suspiecion points .jable use of four letter variations |to more and more characters on i lume, that she was surprised with one blind spot language originating nited States like hush old doll-baby and fizin’ to go somewhere, she was only western lingo special division under slang. Perhaps a revised a later date will con- from. the south murder mystery, Crown Publishers, Avenue, New York oyersexed or the author has out at sea for a long time sight nor sound of woman. 2 cross-section were cut of imagination at almost any ent of the day or night, contain a lady’s thighs and | Hu} to either of these im-/ al props of the hu- being introduced discretion into any work of | adequately supplied and would hate; male of the; underate their or out of fiction. ight bas them float-| liesque-like from the Conacher climbs | aboard the S. S. Rico in New, York bound for Puerte Rico, un-' Fit H to describe the inevitable derriere;the local scene. Mr. Ferrars in- of the human form, either. male | jects into his prose and situations or female. But at least the author|a mounting interest in “who done might vary the basic word. Mr. |it?” It is difficult to put the book Knight seems to be hypnotized|down until the last mystery knot with the world tail. Nobody ever|is untied, and the last romantic sits on a chair or gets kicked in| knot is tied in a pretty bow. the rear. Always a lumpy tail or} Mr. Ferrars’ title, however, is a flappy tail or just a plain tail|far fetched and misleading. It sits on a chair or gets a kick.| seems a deliberate hook to catch The story is exciting enough|the bookstore browser, and has when you wade through the tails|only a very nebulous connection and the torsos. It involves dope | with the story. It looks as if the pushers and murder and beauti-|three Macbeth witches got snag- . Now ‘his reviewer has no’) ful women. But this reviewer is one reader who could do well with considerably less of these pseudo- Spillane touches to the prose. (ALIBI FOR A WITCH, by E. X. Twins Drown TAMPA, Fla. (#—Four-year-old twins who had recently becun swimming lessons tried out their y on their own and drowned a manmade lake Tuesday. Bill and Leslie Robson sank struggling in 15 feet of water whi'e two adults who could not swim vainly tried to reach them with poles. Their mother, Mrs. Jack Robson. arrived soon after they had gonc under and dived several times in .|an effort to locate them in the cloudy water, Firemen recovered the bodies. ged somewhere in either the author’s or the publisher’s imagi- nation, and were dragged away from their pot of brew especially for the title, and to give some “Canada East” To Be Shown Friday Bert Harwell,* former Yose- mite Park Naturalist and now staff member of the Nations! Au- dubon Society, brings his color motion picture Canada East to ‘udubon Screen Tour audiences 1 over the United States. Har- oll, whose whistled bird-song and rd-call representations are na- tonally known, will show “Cana- a East” at Key West High | Friday evening at eight o'clock, co | the third number of this season's Tee s* § j Audubon Screen NO MORE PANTIES y-own here, Mr. ALBUQUERQUE (—Will the ?oved to be an outstanding lec- | young lady or ladies who have been | leaving their panties off? A patient man, Miller made no complaint all last week when every day there would ba a new pair of unmentionables in his garbage can. He called police yesterday Nine new pairs. The panties were taken to the | police station and tagged as eyj.| dence. Subseribe to The Citizen | turer and entertainer. The film found there. U. S. Presidents Rutherford \Hayes and Andrew cackson were born after the death @ their [fathers.