Word: shoptalking
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...pivot" (for solicitation from a window). Practically all the unmailable words turn up, along with a tremendous set of their variants and embellishments. So does the surrealist language of drug addicts, the high-heeled dialect of perverts, the likable archaisms of lumberjacks (they still say "whitewater bucko"), and the shoptalk of the stock exchange and of the turf, which significantly share such terms as "sleeper," "tip sheet" and "past performance...
...drug, a thousand times as powerful as sulfanilamide, excited members of the American College of Surgeons, who met in Boston for some clinical shoptalk last week. Other topics that absorbed the 3,000 visitors were the old problem of toughening up healing wounds, the vital question of surgery in Britain...
When U. S. college presidents gathered last week in Pasadena, Calif, for their annual shoptalk, they had something new to talk about. Besides its old worries-Money Troubles, Social Security, Academic Freedom, What is a Liberal Education?-the Association of American Colleges had a new one: Conscription...
...masterfully made volumes on bookmaking and bibliography, has built the best reference collection on the subject in the U. S. Its dim library of some 27,000 books-about-books. guarded by busts of Ben Franklin and other great printers, is open to the public. At monthly meetings members shoptalk of first editions and Renaissance engravings, entertain each other with addresses on "Pope as a Letter Writer," "Benjamin Franklin, Traveller," "The Terrible Gustave Dore." Members include Moneymen J. Pierpont Morgan, Owen D. Young, Baron Victor Rothschild, Typographers Frederic Goudy, Bruce Rogers, Publishers Charles Scribner, Arthur Hays Sulzberger (New York Times...
Besides examining new instruments, spending their afternoons at colored movies of surgical operations, and cutting up in 45 Philadelphia hospitals, the surgeons gathered at round tables, swapped the surgical shoptalk of the year...