Word: mumbo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mumbo-Jumbo. Moses professed confusion at Mumford's talk of "hide-and-seek" bushes. Said he: "Having built and run more city and suburban playgrounds than almost anyone else around, and never having seen any designed or operated by Mr. Mumford, I don't know what all this mumbo-jumbo is about...
Whodunit? Author Gertrude Stein never comes right out and says, and a second reading of her posthumous Blood on the Dining-Room Floor doesn't help much. This curious fling at mystery-story writing by the late expatriate mumbo-jumboist never even admits that a murder is a murder is a murder. And there is no detective in the story to clear things...
Godfrey Mowatt is a faith healer, but he is no mumbo-jumbo medicine man. He carries credentials: a note on the stationery of Lambeth Palace and signed by the late Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. William Temple: "Mr. Godfrey Mowatt is taking services and speaking at meetings by my wish and authority." Under these words Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, the present Archbishop, has written: "I am glad to add my endorsement and extension to the above...
Sonotone Corp., which contends that its gross of $11,000,000 last year was bigger than Zenith's, chalked up 40% of its cost to manufacturing, the rest to training of acousticians and patient education. Zenith's McDonald considers all such frills so much mumbo-jumbo to spark sales. He thinks aids should be sold off department-store shelves and by mail order...
...enough for the radiator of a farmer's jalopy. To celebrate Christmas, Graves once gilded his beard and eyebrows, and he has been known to leave his shoes on the escalator of a Seattle department store while he himself took the elevator. He likes to talk a mystic mumbo-jumbo that leaves his admirers in open-mouthed confusion...