Word: lingo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Evidently Max Feckler (TIME, July 15) is a little confused in his own argot or lingo. First, he refers to the trainride-stealing American bum, and then refers to him as a hobo. There is no connection whatsoever between a bum and a hobo...
...wants to ride the rods or who does? The motorcar marked the passing of the trainride-stealing American bum, with his curious lingo. That there have never been a dozen masters in this profession is proved by the confusion of terms. To the next generation, the argot of the American hobo will be as incomprehensible as that of Villon's thieves, because apparently there is no one capable of setting them down now. Why doesn't TIME, for a time, open its columns to authoritative bum's language, so that the poets and novelists of future days...
...lingo of the steersman seasoned, perhaps, with a spicy bit of Billinsgate will comprise part of the academic career of Harvard coxswains during the next few weeks. Not that the coxes will commit to memory the right thing to say at the right time in the right place to the right people. They will rather be aided in acquiring such a fluent vocabulary that other crews will stop in amazement...
...story by Kenyon Nicholson is better than most screen-stories; and Milton Sills, the barker, is convincing even when he chokes his girl friend (Betty Compson) for contriving the seduction of his son by one of the carnival ladies (Dorothy Mackaill). Out of the sound device comes barker-lingo; Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (the barker's son) smiles just like his father; and the hitherto silent voice of Milton Sills has been surpassed, in its recording quality, only by that of Lionel Barrymore. Best shot: bed-time in the circus sleeping...
...public, a splendid chance to roil the waters. It seems poor policy to find fault with a few admonitions from an elder friend. The Transcript is the last of all Boston papers whose words merit caustic reception at Harvard. Even if its editorial had a slightly paternal lingo, the intent was kindly. Harvard has enough ill-wishers already without carping at its friends. Frederick deW Pinaree...