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From: Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz>
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Subject: Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Slang is given a glowing review in the
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"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."