Word: mumbo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Naughty boys, perverts, and the world's few serious Satanists have for centuries amused themselves with much talk and rare observance of the luridly infamous Black Mass. Capable of infinite variation in its pseudo-liturgical mumbo jumbo, the Black Mass usually has as its basic ingredients a consecrated host, an apostate priest, a prostitute and a virgin, combined to achieve a maximum of orgiastic blasphemy...
Growing Boys. Yet the mumbo-jumbo of subsidiaries came in handy during the war. Profits (e.g., from U.S. Lever Bros., estimated at $14,000,000 in 1945), which should have gone to Rotterdam and might have fallen into the hands of the Nazis, were simply stopped along...
...from Arthur D. Little, Inc.'s parody of the language chemists and engineers use, some of you have suggested that our Science Editor was hoodwinked into thinking he was making scientific sense. Not so. He was merely giving wider circulation to the engineering firm's kidding the mumbo -jumbo language in which too many scientific treatises are written. He was also, by implication, making a plea for a simpler, clearer use of the King's or any other English...
...Leaf, a Hand. They found something very comforting about Beebe. He looked like a prospector, a stooped, greying man in khaki shirt, riding breeches and high-laced boots. He was always calm, dignified and assured. He wanted no money. Unlike doctors, he recited no baffling mumbo jumbo, but merely looked at his visitors' left hands to see what was the matter with them. "You look at a leaf to tell what's wrong with a tree," he explained gravely. "I look at your hand." The visitors began to feel better already...
Pastor Niem&2461ler became an anti-Nazi the hard way. He was a staunch early-Party member. But when he saw how the wind was blowing, he stood up in his Dahlem pulpit and denounced Hitler's mumbo-jumbo racial theories. He also refused to put the will of Der F&252hrer above the will...