Word: doubletalked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...definitely not overheated jazz with dirty lyrics and doubletalk. It is a word for ultra-modern jazz, such as "Dizzy" Gillespie and others play. . . . The type of music played by Hipster Gibson, Slim Gaillard and others of that type is not really...
...editors chuckled at this smooth doubletalk. Cracked Chairman Erwin D. ("Spike") Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor: "Newspapermen the world over are very much alike." Ehrenburg shot him a grateful grin, while the interpreter hastened to finish translating Ehrenburg's previous remarks: "We know that when the Germans were on the outskirts of the city, Stalin stayed in Moscow. Stalin is dear to our hearts. . . ." Suggested Canham: would the visitors like to ask a few questions for a change? Gracefully, Ilya Ehrenburg declined...
...Donald Adams is usually a mild-mannered and stolid citizen. But the more he looked at a paragraph of literary doubletalk in a current poetry magazine, the more it "acted as bellows to my smouldering disgust." He was really burning by the time he got down to writing his Sunday column in the New York Times Book Review. Wrote he: the trouble with poetry today is the way most critics write about it. "They worry at poetry like a terrier with a rat. They are bleeding it to death...
That's the way Radio Paris started its midnight program. The long-haired doubletalk-Dada love poetry and surrealist verse by Tristan Tzara, André Breton, Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali and Louis Aragon-went on for 15 minutes...
Other British commodity exchanges wondered what was coming. All Board of Trade President Sir Stafford Cripps would say was that the matter must be studied "case by case in the light of special circumstances, and cannot be decided on any preconceived theoretical basis." Translated, this doubletalk meant that the Government would see how well it did as a cotton dealer before it takes over any other commodity markets...