Word: jargoning
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...tobacco they buy, while each seller plainly hears what his neighbor gets for his crop. Most tobacco growers are tenant farmers. Their whole living for the next year is the cash they get at the auctions. Quiet and softspoken, the farmers at Owensboro listened to the auctioneer's jargon as last week's sale began.* The farmers understood this queer, rapid language perfectly; the quiet was short-lived. Tobacco began to sell at an average of $4.61 a hundred pounds against last year...
...Chicago Board of Trade wheat prices rose and fell and rose again, bounding up if:.1 2 or 3 per day. Sweating brokers within the paneled walls of their La Salle Street skyscraper were swamped with buy orders. They yelled and screamed their floor jargon: Give jo Deece 63! Sold! Sold! Sold! 50 March 67! Give 40 July 70! Sold! Sold! Give 50 Deece 64! 70 Deece 65! Sold! Sold...
...Classical Club has been tested to the utmost at yesterday's dinner in Leverett House where only Latin was spoken. Hardly since the banqueting days of Trimalchio has such mealtime abandonment to the Latin tongue been reported; for even the medieval monks sandwiched in bits of contemporary jargon over their Benedictine. But at Leverett House, the only digression into the dialect of the Northern Barbarian Tribes was heard when food was ordered from the bewildered maids...
...facility, like many literary Princetonians he never graduated, left college to write for TIME, of whose staff he is still a member. He also writes for The New Yorker under a thin disguise. Sandy-haired, slow-moving, slangy, like many a worse writer, like few better, he talks newspaper jargon...
...Their phrase [attributed to Mussolini] that 'Fascismo is not an article for exportation' is not mine. It is too banal. It was adopted for the readers of newspapers who in order to understand anything need to have it translated into terms of commercial jargon. In any case it must now be amended...