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Died. William O'Connell ("W. 0.") McGeehan, 54, famed sportswriter (New York Herald Tribune); of heart disease; at San Island Beach, Ga. He pierced the fog of ballyhoo around professional sport, turned a fishy eye on promoters, managers and their proteges, invented an elaborately sardonic slang...
...when his great good friend, chunky David Sarnoff, president of Radio Corp. of America, presented him to the Press in R. C. A.'s magnificent new headquarters in Rockefeller Center."First," said Senator Marconi, "put me wise to what is taking place over here." He enjoys U. S. slang, asked particularly whether the phrase "cold feet" had changed meaning since 1927 when he was last in the U. S. (honeymooning with his second wife, who again accompanied him last week). Then Senator Marconi told what he has learned about the curious behavior of minute ether waves...
...Chiseling' may be a slang word but chiseling is the chief threat to this movement. From your good town of St. Louis there came to my desk the other day a drawing of a turkey buzzard-a sickly opposite of the blue hawk. In his loathsome talons is a chisel. . . . Nothing more apt has come to this administration...
Young though it is among the arts, sciences and sports, aviation already has its own vocabulary, traditions, legends and songs. Pilots' slang and customs are fairly familiar to fiction readers and cinemaddicts. But songs of flying, unlike cowboys' and sailors' songs, have never been collected in print. In the May-June issue of Sportsman Pilot, out last week, appeared the beginning of an anthology of flying songs. First contributions came from John C. Haddock, Pennsylvania mining engineer and sportsman pilot. Pilot Haddock recalled a chantey by which student aviators in the Navy were taught the rudiments...
London's Morning Post comments on the large number of new words of "America's queer coinage (which so often proves ancient currency disinterred)." E. g.- "Racket-a trick, dodge, scheme, game, line of business or action. 1812." "Skirt-A woman. Now vulgar slang, 1560.'' Unlike Sam Johnson, who occasionally winked (as when he defined "lexicographer" as "a harmless drudge") and who occasionally nodded into Latinic somnolence ("Network-anything reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections"), editors of the S. O. E. D. are always serious but try hard...