Word: slangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visiting lecturer had chanced to overhear this remark at Mooseheart, Ill., site of a Loyal Order of Moose home & school for some 1,000 orphans, he would either be mystified or mortified. Translated from recorded Mooseheart slang, the remark means: "The visiting lecturer is a very queer person. The girls are gossiping about...
...first study of slang in this small community, a self-contained unit ideally suited for the purpose, was made in 1930 by Leonard W. Merryweather of the Mooseheart School. Recently Psychologist Edmund Kasser made a second study. In the current Journal of Genetic Psychology he reports that...
President Arévalo. His enemies had whispered that he was pro-Argentine because of his long exile in Argentina. So the "strike" featured Gaucho costumes. With a syrupy Argentine accent, a student representing the President wooed a girl named "Guayaba" (tropical fruit, slang for the Presidency). When Guayaba hiked her skirts, she showed a label: "The Treasury." President Arévalo himself watched and laughed...
...four weeks the Germans had nervously watched as Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov beefed up a tremendous force for the assault aimed at Berlin. The Germans had time to do something: build a deep line of entrenchments and "kettles" (Red Army slang for German "hedgehogs") back of the Oder and Neisse Rivers, at which the Russians had halted. The Germans could do something else: concentrate against Zhukov's most threatening thrust, aimed at Stettin. They had good kettles in the Stargard area...
...Europe, General Marshall's talent-hunter Gasser will operate under the new command of Lieut. General Ben Lear (see below). The Lear and Gasser hunting ground will be Major General John C. H. Lee's behind-the-front Service Forces command, known locally as "Comm Z" (Army slang for communications zone...