Word: jargoning
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...Author. Critics' jargon had it in France that none but a foreigner could have observed the cloistered intolerance of French village life with such dispassionate accuracy, and none but an American would have taken a young girl's first love so seriously. Perhaps they knew that though Author Julian Green has lived most of his 27 years in France, and has always written in French, he was born of American parents, and studied a few years at the University of Virginia...
...course, in a play like "The 19th Hole", in which there are some jokes which are based on golf jargon, a group of ladies might fail at first to register on some things, but for the most part they usually catch on a few minutes later...
Nowadays "racket" plays are pasted up by newspaper folk from clippings of their daily stint, with interpolations of plot and jargon which the newspapers know but would not dare print. Celebrity handles the prizefight "racket" with an intimacy that may annoy Fisticuffers Dempsey and Tunney. Of their characters, careers and managers, the Celebrity, "Barry Regan," and his impressario, " 'Circus' Snyder," are licensed composites. Personal mannerisms alone are spared. As for the women the play involves, and the shady proposition of the big promoter, theatregoers can only conjecture how libelous Reporter-Playwright Willard Keefe has been in his notably...
...Telephone & Telegraph Co. As stockholders, they have been delightfully anxious for six months. So have brokers in Wall Street. The company in six months has earned much money. Wherever two or three traders have been gathered together it has been whispered that the company would "cut a melon," market jargon for an increased dividend...
...dwindling music of the tides, the rigadoons that dinosaurs danced in a primeval sunset, the hungry chisels of rain and wind and river; these are the paraphernalia of geology, the most spectacular, if the most inexact of sciences. Most laymen have no notion of its reaches, beyond a superficial jargon, culled from newssheets, of meaninglessly enormous chunks of time and space. For such laymen as prefer facts to fantasies, Author Benson ably, if condescendingly, puts forward geological facts (e.g.-the air ten miles above the equator is colder than that ten miles above the arctic circle; rainbows are round...