Word: jargoning
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Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox is contrarily full of vigor; but ice-cold appraisers praise only his muscles. When he makes some such remark as "The U.S. will outproduce Hitler in 90 days" his whole Department groans; last week one Navy airman fell back on flying jargon to grumble: "The Old Man is shooting the breeze again...
...lastly an orientation of Nietzsche's thought in the intellectual milieu of today. In a light style, humorous and ironic and aphoristic but not trifling, the book clearly explains Nietzsche's doctrines of the Superman, the Will to Power, and the Trans-valuation of all Values. Avoiding the jargon of the professional philosopher, historian Brinton has written a volume too current to be definitive, too intriguing to be limited only to scholarly perusal...
...thinkers," Rugg decided that education needed frontier thinking too, helped launch the famed Teachers College group. For some ten years this group-Professors Rugg, William H. Kilpatrick, George S. Counts, Jesse H. NewIon, Goodwin Watson, et al.-held bimonthly discussions on "reconstructing" U. S. education, taught teachers a new jargon. In his book, Rugg proudly claims co-authorship of the phrase "child-centred school." Sample Rugg jawbreaker: "The American problem is to bring forth on this continent that civilization of economic abundance, democratic behavior and integrity of expression which is now potentially available." Aided by 16 researchers, Harold Rugg...
Although Bing's activities are quieter, his manner isn't. Old friends from Spokane still recognize the happy-go-lucky Crosby approach which is transmitted to radio audiences in the jargon which keeps the Kraft Music Hall one of the peppiest shows on the air. There is no room for the usual tense radio nerves around...
...Joey (book by John O'Hara, music by Rodgers & Hart, produced by George Abbott). Since he came of age, John O'Hara has spent more time in nightclubs than many men have in bed. He has stayed till closing, seen all the sights, heard all the jargon. His short novel Pal Joey consists of the magnificently illiterate letters of a nightclub crooner and hoofer, an attractive, low and decidedly rubbery heel, describing his greedy world of mice and moola (women and money). Perhaps the most laudable thing about this character is that he might not betray the mice...