Word: jargoning
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This is truly a matter to view with alarm, and without banter we suggest that some of our more ethnocentric loyalists and propagandists climb to the top of Grizzly Peak and bay back at Boston high society in the hill-billy jargon that is all they seem able to understand: just so this matter can be put straight. We are not too enthusiastic about the University, but there are very few movies we enjoy and we believe that Kipling was almost right: south is south, but by God, north is also north. --Daily Californian...
...February 1934, the stockmarket again reached for a record, the averages this time touching no. But in the jargon of chart readers, the market had thus established what is variously called a "supply area," a "resistance level" or a "critical point." To get chart readers bullishly excited the averages would have to pierce that mystic area of 108-110 into new high ground...
...house his father built near Lake Mendota. A brother, Isaac, is on the New York Times Book Review staff. Artist Anderson gets many a Henry idea from watching moppets in the streets. Big-framed, grey, mild, plain as homespun, he looks and talks like a Norwegian woodworker, lacks the jargon of the comic-stripper. For fun he goes to a carpenter's bench in his house, turns out odd pieces of woodwork. A child's desk of his design is marketed in Milwaukee for about...
...steel bodies "reinforced by steel" (to go the others one better) for safety, and "skyway silhouette" with "slim, silvery radiators, intriguing new hood louvers, and gull's wing fenders" for improved body lines-these are the contributions Studebaker has made this year to their models and to the advertising jargon...
...Flying Colors, Composer Schwartz and Lyricist Dietz have been recognized by Tin Pan Alley as a top-notch songwriting team. When they work on a show, they hire a hotel room, stay in it until the show is ready for rehearsal. They refer to typical musicomedy songs in jargon: a "restless" ("Moanin' Low"), a "Columbus" ("I Found A Million Dollar Baby"), a "Hoover" ("Just Around A Corner"). The coat, vest and pants of a song are its verse, transition and chorus. Dietz-Schwartz songs ("Something to Remember You By," "Dancing in the Dark," "Shine on Your Shoes...