Word: lingo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides summarizing hundreds of plays and spotting hundreds of players and playwrights, the book touches such stray topics as theatrical cemeteries, the 36 Dramatic Situations, explains a mass of technical terms and theatre lingo. Experts have written its longer articles: Raymond Massey on Acting, John Mason Brown on Criticism, Lucius Beebe on First Nights, William Fields on Press Agents, Aline Bernstein on Costumes, Arthur Richman on Playwrighting...
...Civil War; as a harvest hand, a migrant worker, a volunteer in the Spanish-American War; as a young reporter in Milwaukee and Chicago getting ten years of schooling in the hard facts of politics, business, labor; as a poet, a big Swede trying to shape American lingo to fit his anger against bunk artists, his vague tenderness for common people, his sense of the power of U. S. Midland cities...
Editor Mencken printed it. Weaver received $11.25. Year and a half later, Weaver published a book of verse written in the same lingo, which went through seven printings in its first year. Weaver followed this smash hit with three books of verse; but their novelty progressively dwindled, and so did their popular appeal...
...rolling Harlemites have long chuckled over the way the usually prissy white folks' radio has been going to town for a month on Hold Tight. In Harlem Hold Tight's fishy lyrics are considered no ordinary clambake stuff, but a reasonable duplication of the queer lingo some Harlem bucks use in one form of sex perversion. Harlemites chuckled even more last week when, taking a hint from Broadway columnists, radiomen hastily demanded that Hold Tight's, lyrics be bowdlerized...
...reason Arch McDonald is high favorite of the fans is that he avoids the hackneyed "hot-corner," "keystone-sack" school of baseball idiom. With Arch a pitcher is a pitcher, not a twirler; a catcher catches, he does not "do the receiving chore." The lingo he uses is his own or fresh from the dugout. Announcing a double play, for example, Arch is likely to report laconically: "two dead birds"; his fans know an easy fly as "a can of corn," an easy, high-hopping grounder as "Big Bill," a curve ball as "No. 2," and a slow ball...