Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Strong Man Fulgencio Batista's candidate lost the presidency to hollow-eyed Ramon Grau San Martin in 1944's free elections, Batista promptly and discreetly took a plane for Miami. Since then, backed by a jumbo-sized bank roll, he has sat out a pleasant exile in some of the New World's toniest suites...
Godfrey Mowatt is a faith healer, but he is no mumbo-jumbo medicine man. He carries credentials: a note on the stationery of Lambeth Palace and signed by the late Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. William Temple: "Mr. Godfrey Mowatt is taking services and speaking at meetings by my wish and authority." Under these words Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, the present Archbishop, has written: "I am glad to add my endorsement and extension to the above...
Sonotone Corp., which contends that its gross of $11,000,000 last year was bigger than Zenith's, chalked up 40% of its cost to manufacturing, the rest to training of acousticians and patient education. Zenith's McDonald considers all such frills so much mumbo-jumbo to spark sales. He thinks aids should be sold off department-store shelves and by mail order...
...radiator of a farmer's jalopy. To celebrate Christmas, Graves once gilded his beard and eyebrows, and he has been known to leave his shoes on the escalator of a Seattle department store while he himself took the elevator. He likes to talk a mystic mumbo-jumbo that leaves his admirers in open-mouthed confusion...
Along with the jumbo, they talked of the surrounding dark-panelled walls and the many-colored candle-holders; and soon the O.G. was known round the world. Patrons would swear it outdated Harvard Hall and few were doubted; but actually the Grille hit the Square in 1939, moving up from a North Cambridge location. Harvard men found it right away and Cambridge Summer Theatre stars began to go over after the shows, leaving tips on the tables and their pictures over the bar. Proud of its exotic liqueur collection from 52 countries, the prewar O.G. would guarantee a free drink...