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Eric Partridge • 24 Items / 22 Books, 2 Reviews
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (1937)
by Eric Partridge
Colloquialisms, and Catch-Phrases, Solecisms and Catachresis, Nicknames, and ...
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Published Reviews
  1. [+]
    Back Alleys of Language (Review)
    George Genzmer
    A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, by Eric Partridge
    1. A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English by Eric Partridge
    The Nation, April 24, 1937, p. 478
  2. Books in Review
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    The Poets Down Under (Review)
    Otis Ferguson
    A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, by Eric Partridge
    1. A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English by Eric Partridge
    The New Republic, July 7, 1937, p. 255
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    Language, Loose and Low (Review)
    H.L. Mencken
    A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, by Eric Partridge
    1. A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English by Eric Partridge
    The Saturday Review, April 10, 1937, p. 6
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    Briefly Noted (4 Reviews)
    General
    1. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
    2. The Secret Conferences of Dr. Goebbels by Willi A. Boelcke
    3. My Life and "The Times" by Turner Catledge
    4. A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English by Eric Partridge
    The New Yorker, February 13, 1971, pp. 111-114
  5. Books
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    Eric Partridge, the Word King (7 Reviews)
    Edmund Wilson
    A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, by Eric Partridge
    1. A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English by Eric Partridge
    2. A Dictionary of the Underworld by Eric Partridge
    3. Slang Yesterday and Today by Eric Partridge
    4. Usage and Abusage by Eric Partridge and Janet Whitcut
    5. Name Into Word by Eric Partridge
    6. Shakespeare's Bawdy by Eric Partridge
    7. The Language Bar by Victor Grove
    The New Yorker, August 4, 1951, pp. 57-58
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    The Check List (12 Reviews)
    Miscellaneous
    1. A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English by Eric Partridge
    2. The Fascist: His State and His Mind by E.B. Ashton
    3. The Third Reich by Henri Lichtenberger and Koppel S. Pinson
    4. Rolling Along in Song by J. Rosamond Johnson
    5. The Supreme Court and the National Will by Dean Alfange
    6. The Source of Civilization by Gerald Heard
    7. Studies in the Science of Society by George Peter Murdock
    8. Biological Time by Pierre Lecomte du Nouy
    9. Thoughts on Death and Life by William Ernest Hocking
    10. The Masts of Gloucester by Raymond McFarland
    11. The 101 Ranch by Ellsworth Collings and Alma Miller England
    12. Government Publications and Their Use by Laurence F. Schmeckebier
    The American Mercury, September 1937
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    Fingertip Facts (28 Reviews)
    David M. Glixon
    From Apollodorus to Zanuck
    1. Guide to the Use of Books and Libraries by Jean Key Gates
    2. Who Was Who, 1951-1960
    3. Chambers Biographical Dictionary by Una McGovern
    4. Dictionary of American Catholic Biography by John J. Delaney and James Edward Tobin
    5. The National Catholic Almanac
    6. Collier's Encyclopedia
    7. The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature by George Sampson
    8. A Dictionary of Literary Terms by J.A. Cuddon
    9. The New Century Classical Handbook by Catherine B. Avery
    10. Masterpieces of World Philosophy in Summary Form by Frank N. Magill
    11. The Penguin Dictionary of Quotations by John M. Cohen
    12. The Collins Gem Dictionary of Quotations
    13. A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English by Eric Partridge
    14. Political Handbook of the World, 1962
    15. Political Africa by Ronald Segal
    16. Europe's Needs and Resources by J. Frederic Dewhurst, John O. Coppock, and P. Lamartine Yates, ...
    17. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union by Michael T. Florinsky
    18. Encyclopedia of American History by Richard B. Morris
    19. Illustrated World of the Bible Library
    20. The Larousse Encyclopedia of the Earth by Leon Bertin
    21. Larousse Gastronomique by Prosper Montagne
    22. The Encyclopedia of Football by Roger L. Treat
    23. Ronald Encyclopedia of Football by Harold Claassen
    24. Scarne's Complete Guide to Gambling by John Scarne
    25. Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music by Milton Cross and David Ewen
    26. The Opera Companion by George Whitney Martin
    27. Encyclopedia of World Art by Jack Heraty
    28. The Joey Adams Joke Dictionary by Joey Adams
    The Saturday Review, March 24, 1962, pp. 41-47