Did you know that the quick brown fox actually jumped over "the lazy mrpldrk"?  It's true; it's in Bewitched, and it made it into Webster's Dictionary of Improbable Words: All-Consonant and All-Vowel Words. 

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook, for Catherine Welsh, who says "[Silence] has a way with words."

"Yex" isn't a word? Oh, yex it is!"  Two stills from Dear Ladies.

Is there a name for the phenomenon of one language being identified but another being transcribed?  For example:

"'You are going to kill him?' she cried in German."  (From The Man Who Couldn't Sleep by Arthur Stringer.)

And: "[Men speaking Spanish] Last night I had an ugly nightmare."

Here is some one-letter maledicta from Life, 1918.  To decipher what those letters mean, see One-Letter Words: A Dictionary.

On the magical quality of philosophical phrases: "They have something, a sort of magic — I don't know what — that makes like rich and exciting to me.  . . . I think we're thrilled by the weight of history that lies behind each one of these phrases.  It isn't just the world itself, or just its immediate meaning.  It's a long, trailing margin of human sensations, life by life, century by century, that gives us this peculiar thrill.  . . .  I know they're absurd, these phrases . . . Words like 'pluralism' and 'dualism' and 'monism.'  But what they make me think of is just a particular class of vague, delicious, physical sensations!  And it's the idea of there having been feelings like these, in far-off, long-buried human nerves, that pleases.  . . .  It makes life seem so thick and rich and complicated."  —John Cowper Powys, Wolf Solent

Here's a form of cartoon swearing ("maledicta") from Metropolitan Magazine, 1911 — perhaps an exclamation of "Dingbat!" without the use of any dingbats.  The caption says it's a verb, and the "ding" part of "dingbat" probably traces back to the obsolete meaning "to deal a heavy blow."