Word: shoptalking
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...most important Evanston discussions was devoted to the problem of how the churches in the 20th century should go about spreading the Word. The resulting message might have been more shoptalk for clergymen. Actually, it is addressed also to laymen-"missionaries of Christ in every secular sphere"-and forcefully defines the job of being a Christian. Excerpts...
...behind it. Some cynics guessed that Big Bill wanted a free hand to go raiding. A more sinister explanation was that Hutcheson planned to join up with the Mine Workers' John L. Lewis to form the core of a new labor federation (dubbed the "Phantom Phederation" in labor shoptalk). Said a member of the executive committee: "I see the fine hand of John L. Lewis in this...
...since Georges is busy all day with politics, Young Birch Caroline soon gets a chance to branch out. Gaston de Salanches, for example, knows how to appreciate her. "My darling," he murmurs, "do you know that you have the most beautiful breasts in the world?" After a little more shoptalk, Caroline goes spinning "dizzily to unknown heights of ecstasy...
Tired of ward routine, Demara took to religion again. Shuttling back & forth across the Maine-New Brunswick border between two religious houses, he met the real Dr. Cyr and won his confidence. "Dr. Hamann" never betrayed himself in his medical shoptalk. At St. Romuald in Quebec, "Dr. Hamann" became "Brother John." But almost at once, he ran away and signed on with the R.C.N...
Detroit is casual, rough-&-ready, informal-a city of bright neckties and T-shirts, bowling alleys, towering commercial hotels, overstuffed clubs buzzing with shoptalk and big deals. It is a city of salesmen, technicians and craftsmen, mechanics and makers of chemicals, furnaces, tools, dies and household appliances. Almost half of its employed population are the 320,000 workers who perform the automaton labor of the auto plants. They speak to the world through such trumpet-voiced agents as red-haired Walter Reuther-and speak so loud they are now among the best-paid workers in the world...