Word: canting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them cant about decorum Who have characters to lose...
...according to a friend "can now jug a rabbit or produce a curry that's first rate." Viewing her own abundant activity, Miss Cam has occasional stirrings of a most Victorian solicitude. "Sometimes," she says, in a high, cultured voice, "Sometimes, I think I'm just a little too cant...
...number of times Senator Bricker has invoked the Constitution as the sacred vessel of all that is praise-worthy in America is past counting. His proposed amendment, thus, seems somewhat anamalous. Despite our feeling that cant has dominated his incantations, it is still surprising that so ardent a defender of the Constitution should want to alter that document as drastically as he does...
...veryfey the statement." That sort of thing, says Barzun in the Atlantic Monthly, may be bad writing, but it is nevertheless harmless. The real danger to language "does not come from such trifles. It comes rather from the college-bred millions who . . . circulate the prevailing mixture of jargon, cant, vogue words, and loose syntax that passes for prose." Barzun calls this "the infinite duplication of dufferism...
Douglas Auchincloss, Louis Banks, Bruce Barton, Jr., Gilbert Cant, Edwin Copp3, Alexander Eliot, Frank Gibney, Max Gissen, Frederick Gruin, Roger S. Hewlett, James C. Keogh, Louis Kronenberger, Jonathan Norton Leonard, Robert Manning, William Miller. Paul O'Neill, Carl Solberg, Walter Stockly...