A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
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*"I recognize the beauty and delicacy of the relationship you described. But I'm... I don't trust myself. I'm afraid I'm a lot bolder than you are, Oddly. You don't think that would necessarily endanger everything? Do you? Why, the very idea that I should have to spend my honeymoon watching her paint in watercolors just because she's like somebody from the buttercup family, i… i'm a man in love. It's the first time in my life.I want to take her in my arms. I thought because I was young, I had self-control but that's not true. I think of her every waking moment…"*