Word: argot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lesser mysteries of the world of finance is why, just because an individual has managed to acquire shares in a corporation, he should be expected to understand the argot of accountancy. Yet last fortnight, undoubtedly to the great perplexity of its 7,138 stockholders, Johns-Manville Corp. phrased part of its 1937 balance sheet in the above bewildering fashion...
...Silent Barriers" has to do with the struggle involved in pushing the tracks of the Canadian Pacific across the mountains of British Columbia. To show you that it is a real outdoor drama with lots of tough men in it, there are some emasculated versions of section gang argot, and an infinite amount of the players barking at each other. There is about the picture a certain inevitable gusto which attaches to any treatment of this sort of material, some genuinely thrilling mountain shots, and a plethora of weak women, outdoor men, and open spaces. Nonetheless, we were glad...
...themselves upon the ox, twisting it over by the horns and holding it prostrate, sitting on its head until peasants ran up with ropes, hobbled the ox's feet. Scowling, the Dictator watched. Himself a peasant, he then scathingly reproved the peasant owner of the ox in choice Italian argot for being such a numbskull as not to know how to handle...
...concentrate in the central and western States surrounding Mexico City. Through Puebla and Morelos roams El Tallarin, one of the most famed of living bandits. Jalisco belongs to Lauro Rocha. In Durango operates Francisco Vasquez. In Guanajuato until last week the small bands of Fermin Sandoval and Camilo Ramirez Argot ("The Rabbit")* had occupied themselves attacking busses, robbing, raping and killing passengers, attacking unprotected school teachers and agrarian communities and generally spreading the pious word of the "Cristeros...
While in Washington last week lawyers with unaristocratic names fired questions at J. P. Morgan and Thomas W. Lament in gangster argot (see p. 12), in London there was decorum and courtesy as the Royal Commission on the Private Manufacture and Trade in Arms examined great armament tycoons...