Word: lingo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reservations and waiting lists have become a joke in many places, simply because it is much easier to. sell to the "go-show" (airline lingo for the passenger without a reservation who takes a chance on getting aboard at the last minute in place of the "no-show") than to check a long waiting list by phone...
...drawer clients include such shrewd and seasoned manufacturers as Sam Goldwyn, Walt Disney, MGM, David 0. Selznick, Hal Wallis, J. Arthur Rank, RKO. After ten years of cautious experimenting and testing, A.R.I, is equipped with everything from Gallup interviewers to electrical gadgets that measure audience boredom. Its trade lingo glitters with professionalisms: A.P. (Audience Penetration), Want-to-See, Don't-Want-to-See, Word-of-Mouth...
...wild Irish," said a soldier then; "drink goes to their 'eads. Wot was bitin' em? Barmy, th' lot of 'em. Wot did they do it for? Larfable." "Poor, dear, dead men," says O'Casey now, "poor W. B. Yeats." The wit and rich lingo of Juno and the Paycock, the legendary and the tragic, real Ireland of The Plough and the Stars, run through his pages like the River Liffey through Dublin...
...Chiropodist lingo for corns and calluses, feet, athlete's foot, deformities of toes...
What made Hurley sorest was what he called the practice of some lower-level officials in State "leaking information derogatory to the settled policy of this Government." He added, in characteristic Hurley lingo: "I'm opposed to being leaked upon...