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Word: jargoned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...natural consequence is that he must look on his profession in a new light. When he talks football he must include not only a knowledge of the gridiron jargon, but an understanding of the commercial aspect which threatens the game; if it is rowing or track he must remember that in them "There exist opportunities for the promulgation of the international relationship whose recently appreciated significance has utterly changed their character as mere sport and made them important adjuncts to statecraft and diplomacy". His task has expanded beyond the realm of common reporter so that today it is of such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORT SCRIBE AT WORK | 5/27/1921 | See Source »

...University Hall-these are the essentials of a routine Lampoon. These are here, each with a carefully introduced reference to an ouija board, a crystal, or a ghost. Quite in the orthodox fashion, the quality varies. Real humor hides between paragraphs of undiluted nonsense properly tinctured with spiritualistic jargon. Pre-eminence in the Lampoon's true field-good humored mockery of the incidents and figures in our academic daily round-is revealed in drawings and verse which, alas, leave much space for work that is less ably contrived. The old receipt has given the old result, and once again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRITIC FINDS LAMPY MEDIOCRE | 4/5/1920 | See Source »

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