Word: jargoning
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...Speaking of newspaper men", she continued, "I am utterly disillusioned about them. The movies would have it that every reporter is springing with ready wit and just brimming with the jargon of the press. They aren't at all, they are just fat, middle-aged men who sit around and never think of rushing off to a fire with flying hair and their coats half on. I mourn the passing of the old time newspaper man who always speaks past the door man and turns up in the star's dressing room fully dressed as a chorine. Give...
...that Professor Whitehead rather than Von Humboldt describes the current trend of university business schools is abundantly illustrated not only by the catalogues in which the schools of business set forth their aims and their offerings, but by the specific tasks which they undertake while employing a university jargon. One wonders, for example, what the real scholars and scientists at Harvard think of 'scientific research in advertising and cooperative analysis of broadcasting'. Let me quote some of the questions employed in the 'research' for which Harvard has given a prize to the Association of National Advertisers...
...nearly everyone remembers, the name "Kabibble" comes from the familiar expression of two decades ago, "Ish kabibble" ("I should worry"). It is a corruption of the Yiddish jargon "nisht gefidelt" which meant the same thing but was hard for Gentiles to pronounce. Cartoonist Hershfield, who takes the action of King Features much to heart, last week promised "the biggest national fight you ever saw." Said he: "I am fighting for my natural right to earn a living. ... I claim that the character and his name are virtually chemical to myself and that no one should interfere with my right...
...policy of our government for the restoration of credit and prosperity, Thy will be done. "Because we have been selfish in our conduct of business, setting our own interest and that of our class before the interest of others, forgive us our trespasses." The Morning Post loudly snorted: ". . . Current jargon of the platform . . . insensible to the dignity of the English liturgy. . . . Nothing could be better calculated to induce a spirit of national humility than the thought that such prayers could be authorized for use in public worship by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York." Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang...
...this section: "All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people." In brief but adequate sketches he disposes of the Apes. "When a Chimpanzee looks at another Chimp he does not see what we see. They frequently have twins." Author Cuppy can jargon with the best of them: "The Gorilla could do with more brains. His corpus callosum is not very good but the hippocampus major is O. K. The hallux is fair." "The family life of the Baboon is known as hell on earth. The males grow meaner and stingier...