Word: mooseheart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Second International Symposium on Feelings and Emotions, sponsored by the Mooseheart (111.) Laboratory for Child Research of the Loyal Order of Moose and the University of Chicago...
...iron works at eleven, later made a fortune in investments before he entered politics. A longtime power in the Loyal Order of Moose (director general since 1906), he pushed its membership from 247 to more than 800,000, founded its two major charities (Moosehaven, Fla., for the aged; Mooseheart, Ill., for widows & orphans). In 1933 he was one of five acquitted in a Moose lottery scandal (his alleged cut: $172,300) in which three associates were convicted of conspiracy...
...first study of slang in this small community, a self-contained unit ideally suited for the purpose, was made in 1930 by Leonard W. Merryweather of the Mooseheart School. Recently Psychologist Edmund Kasser made a second study. In the current Journal of Genetic Psychology he reports that...
...Perhaps because of better relations between the children and their supervisors, old names for Mooseheart staff members-sluefoot, screw, night-caller, supreme being, walking tree-have died. An increase of tolerance has presumably caused the disappearance of such words as fish and fisheater (both meaning Catholic), and aquarium (a Catholic priest's home). Also gone are smutch (sneak-out), squirrel (psychologist, i.e., one who looks for "nuts...
...Current words include snags (tonsils), tank (stomach), hilk (an interjection indicating embarrassment), storky (tall, scrawny) and bughouse (the Mooseheart Laboratory for Child Research...