Word: lingo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Minehan learned some useful tips on the art of begging. Said one adept: "Poorly dressed men with a grouch and a mean look are often the best prospects because they don't get hit so much." He learned to understand such lingo as: "I'm on the fritz, see? And I carries the banner slinking harness bulls. Until glims. Then I batters private plunging like a gandy dancer and red bulls sock into the old heavy-foot himself. 'Tooting ringers for a scoffing?' he says. 'Come wid me, I'll give...
...their conversation were limited, rio one interpreter could have been quite sure what they were talking about; for in order to understand everything that was said, such an interpreter would have to know about 1.500 different languages, not counting dialects. In Urdu, Kiswahili, Catalan, Manchu, many another mutually outlandish lingo they hissed, jabbered, squeaked to each other. Some (though few of them knew it) were even talking Basic English...
...Sullivan-Viking ($2.75). Many plain men are puzzled, irritated or tantalized about Science and would like to know what it is up to. But scientists in general, their noses close to their peculiar grindstones, either have no interest in showing visitors through the mill or talk such a Hottentot lingo of pure mathematics that the plain man can make no sense of it. If it were not for such bilingual scientists as Bertrand Russell, James Jeans, Arthur Eddington, J. B. S. Haldane, the flimsy bridge between modern science and modern life would be made of newspapers. Of the contemporary interpreters...
...tell if he has an anchor tatooed on his chest?" the blonde asks. "Why just use your ... ah ... ingenuity," the master mind replies. To the imaginations of thousands of CRIMSON readers we leave the task of reconstructing the horse-play that ensues. In the lingo of the theatre it "panicked" the Metropolitan audience Friday night...
...have been hardy enough to read her in the original (and to some of those) she has the reputation of a pure nonsense writer. To the man-in-the-street, she is the synonym for what Critic Max Eastman calls "the cult of unintelligibility." In man-in-the-street lingo, "Gert's poems are bunk...