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Show SLANG AS A PART OF OUR LANGUAGE. Columbia. Mo., Jan. 12 Shakespeare Shakes-peare would be greatly pleased with tho picturesque American slang of today, to-day, nccordlng to Dr. E. A. Allen of the English department of the University Uni-versity of Missouri. "Hamlet, university student, talked KJnng," said Dr. Allen, in a lecture last night. He quoted the passage where Rosencranz says to Hamlet: "My lord, you once did love me," and Hamlet replied. "So do I still, by these pickers and stealers." "Pickers and stealers for hands," 6ald Dr. Allen, . "reminds one of the expression In use today "lunch hooks.' Slang Is a part of our language." |