Word: gibberish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edison answered her husband's proposal of marriage by saying -[TIME, April 26], she was using gibberish which even the genius of Edison could not decipher...
...whole crew look unwholesome, joyless, depressed-and even sinister. ... I now know why the political articles are always cynical, the education column senseless gibberish, the religion column gloomy rubbish, devoid of inspiration, hope or spiritual benefit...
With an occasional exception, the writing does not shine. Exceptions: George Orwell's deadly attack on the gibberish-jargon of political and literary cliche-journalism, calculated to give hacks the world over the stammers and the shakes; Dylan Thomas' intoxicated poetry, difficult and dense but flashing sparks of overwhelming insight...
...coffee port of New Orleans, Publisher Ralph Nicholson of the Item deleted the name of Detective Dick Tracy's current villain "Coffyhead" from every strip, making gibberish out of some of the speeches and captions. ("Coffyhead" is a no-good who earned his nickname by always brewing his evil deeds over a cup of coffee.) Publisher Nicholson explained that he considered the name "a nasty and unfair reflection on a fine beverage...
There was more to come. The Madists, led by Kósice, are also getting ready to put out their own dictionary, listing their version of Spanish as it is spoken by Madistas. But as the definitions of terms are also in gibberish, no one outside Madism is likely to be the richer for buying a copy...