Word: jargonizing
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...genius, in the word's jargon connotation. Something was denied his hand. He left his illustrations for the Century Magazine far behind, but he could never express himself perfectly. A certain crabbedness entered his nature through his sense of frustration. On a small scale he had the Michelangelic misanthropy. He said of his teacher, Duveneck "He liked me?which most people...
Also, on p. 16 of the same issue you head an article about Henri de Jouvenel, Henry est Arrive. Could any mixture of French and English schoolboy jargon be more ridiculous...
...soul" and "the souls of the theatre", about Monodrama and Melodrama, about Impressionism and Expressionism, about Physico-psychology and Psycho-analysis, about all the clashing symbols of the sexy saxophone. "Lampy" is justified in his jests about those followers of the Dramatic Club who take all this jargon too seriously. The fact is Evreinov himself preaches that nothing in life is to be taken seriously. That is his cardinal principle. His play is none of these "-isms"--or all of them, as you wish. You can take them or leave them. We need not then be too much alarmed when...
...ticker chattered and clucked like a thing gone daft-it tripped itself up and jumpled its furious jargon as if it had an impedient of speech-yet all day long it was slow. When the ticker is even a minute slow it means that an unusually heavy lot of trading is being done. On Friday of last week it was from eight to twenty minutes slow all the time. When the bell rang 2,684,907 shares had been bought and sold-the second largest day's trading in the history of the Stock Exchange, and the highest total...
Slang must be squelched. Now that jargon has been shown up, let it at once be given the gate...