Word: pig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tune, which was unrestricted, was the most popular on the air. Station WHN played it 28 times on one all-night broadcast in answer to 428 appeals. Station WBNX prepared to broadcast the song in Yiddish, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, German, Polish, Ukranian, Greek, Negro dialect, Irish brogue and pig-Latin. In dance halls, cinemansions. night clubs the nation reeled in vertigo...
What a fine exhibition of bad taste the "tycoons" of utilities displayed when Mr. McCarter proposed a toast "To the President of the United States!" as reported in your Dec. 23 issue. Makes me believe the old saying, "Expect nothing from a pig but a grunt," holds good...
Anna M. Pabst, 39, bacteriologist with the U. S. Public Health Service in Washington, was to read a paper at the New York meeting proving the impossibility of testing anti-meningitis serum on rabbits and guinea pigs. Night before her appearance she died of meningitis contracted when a guinea pig, into whose head she was injecting virulent meningitis germs, jerked out of her hands. The meningitis germs squirted into Miss Pabst's eye, sped to her brain, killed her in eight days, earned her a medical martyr's kudos...
...Farmer Moor had not paid his tax: He could not; he was already in debt; if he had plunked down $45,000 to pay the tax he would have had to go out of business long before the constitutionality of the law was settled. "If a man has a pig by the hind leg," said Texan Hardie, "he can't afford to let go when somebody says to him, 'Drop that pig and catch another...
Most intelligent laymen regard the jargon of lawyers as an obvious trade trick, a professional pig-Latin calculated to obscure otherwise simple matters and impress clients with the indispensability of their services. Fortunately, most of their pompous verbal mumbo-jumbo is harmless tautology. But at least one legal usage- "and/or"-is dangerous nonsense...