From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   "It might seem unusual to devote a day to a rave review of a book, but   
   this was a very unusual book, and nobody -- least of all the author --   
   had expected it."   
      
   Nice quote from the review, by Dilworth Faber (who?):   
      
   "The lost words of the language have finally come to roost.   
   The unmentionables are mentioned."   
      
   Emphasis is on the fact that Partridge included all the "indecent"   
   words, fully spelled out -- still illegal at that time under British   
   obscenity laws.   
      
   "Dilworth Faber...was himself planning a dictionary of American slang."   
   It was never finished. Julie Coleman's history of slang dictionaries   
   mentions that he was encouraged in this project by William Craigie, the   
   OED editor who went to Chicago.   
      
   No more than scraps about him online:   
   1909-1976?   
   poet   
   in the early 30s he was working on a "comprehensive history of Negro Art"...   
      
   Ah well. Eric Partridge is much better documented and perhaps as   
   interesting:   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Partridge   
      
   "From 1923, he "found a second home", occupying the same desk (K1) in   
   the British Museum Library (as it was then known) for the next fifty years."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)