Word: biz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then another guy, named Larry Bellows, joined our conference, and he's the Editor of the Jack-O-Lantern, which he claims is the best slick in the biz. 'What do you think of the Lampoon?" we ask him, trying not to show any enthusiasm...
...lexicographers: Danish Newsmen Victor Skaarup and Kris Winther. To keep up to the minute and sometimes an hour or so ahead, Skaarup and Winther had listened to U.S. newscasts and radio comedians, swapped letters with Variety's Editor Abel Green and studied his slangy tradepaper of "show biz." (Said Green, washing his hands of some of their definitions: "They're talking smörgasbord slanguage...
...grosses for the last couple of months were about 8% higher than a year ago. This did not necessarily mean that more people were going to the movies. Admission prices had also gone up about 8% (from an average 42½? to 46?). But, said the trade sheet Variety: "Biz remains terrific, no matter how you look...
Billy Rose is a fat little entrepreneur with a beautiful wife who never went to college. Yesterday Billy Rose made a show biz generalization: not only did his wife never go to college, but "with very few exceptions beautiful girls don't go to college." Just as nice as that...
...regularly visits the wounded at hospitals, talking to them in his Virginia drawl with a pipe clenched between his teeth, which produces such Pullerisms as "biz-ouack" for bivouack, "Nitmitz" for Nimitz. Before an attack he spends days with his men encouraging them and carefully inspecting their weapons. They will follow him to hell...