Word: scramming
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...That Man, and the alphabet soup of government bureaus (NRA, TVA). But the bulk of heavy coinage has come from a slew of irresponsible, word-happy inventors, including such Menckenian heroes as Variety's late Jack Conway (who coined baloney, S.A., high-hat, pushover, payoff, bellylaugh, palooka and scram) and the inventor of slanguage itself, Walter Winchell...
...turned up in a Broadway night scene. Max Huddle, 30, dance-hall manager, ex-bouncer, 4-Fer, was holding his own against four soldiers who had tried to take his taxi, when, he swore, another taxi drew up and Colonel Roosevelt stepped out, stopped the fight, told everyone to "scram." Huddle, bruised and breathing hard, filed a complaint with the Army Provost Marshal against the G.I.s, called Roosevelt a "taxi-commando, [who] acted like he was God Almighty...
...accomplice in crime and I pushed our way through the crowd and grabbed Freyberg by the tails of his tunic. He turned round and, exercising his privilege as an "Old Boy," gruffly ordered us to "absquatulate," which means nothing worse than "scram." But we were inspired at having touched with our hands a real, live hero and a good Samaritan...
...different slang words were used. Examples: babe, bracelets, chee, crack pot, darn, dawgoned, diggity, flatfoot, framed, gal, gents, gorsh, heck, haywire, holy-mackerel, hyuh, janes, migosh, nope, nuts, O.K., phooie, scram, shux, tipoff...
...husband is in the Army) and her baby. No sooner has the household been converted into a nursery than the couple's son and imminently expectant daughter-in-law arrive to turn it into a delivery room. Another set of prospective parents also pay a call, but obligingly scram before the place becomes an out-&-out maternity ward. Between whiles there are some highly transient maids, some escapist drinking by the long-suffering older folk, and a sour maiden aunt who, deprived of her bed, is forced to take cot luck in the living room...