Word: jargoning
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SUGAR IN THE AIR-E. C. Large- Scribner ($2.50). Sulphurous story, weakened by phantasy and chemical jargon, about a young English chemist in the hands of slick promoters for whom he develops a process which makes sugar...
...knock-'em-down-&- drag-'em-out school. Since those days he has had a change of heart, believes now in plain speaking, but "the politician of today cannot afford to be a bore, and by the same token he cannot afford to affect the incomprehensible jargon of the professor." Maverick thinks Tugwell's fearful and wonderful vocabulary, plus his inability to jolly newshawks, had much to do with his unpopularity...
What this country needs, to use a little political jargon, is direct action. The Law School has set a laudable precedent. A question of such magnitude should be submitted, according to the regular amending process, to the source of all power in a democracy--the people...
...lexicon of those slouching wisecracks, grimy proverbs and reckless, light-hearted double-entendres without which the great mass of the U. S. population would be almost inarticulate. In go West Young Man, she delivers a full quota which will doubtless become, immediately and indelibly, part of the U. S. jargon. When her escort demands a quiet table for two, her comment is, "You know, seclusive." Worried, she remarks: "I must have a moment or two ... to commute with myself." To her young inventor she coins a proverb: "I always said 'Science is Golden...
...only 35%, successive "flights from the" have reduced the Paris store of gold to a point at which the General Staff recently told the French Cabinet that they now had only the minimum requirement of gold necessary for national defense in case of a general European war. In the jargon of economists, there was last week "no technical reason" why it should have been necessary to monkey with the franc, but there was just about every other reason...