Word: slangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Radio programs were cleaned up drastically, obnoxious commercials banned or cut down to 100 words between programs, classical music made compulsory at least once daily, serials, quiz shows, announcements and song lyrics* subjected to strict censorship to cut out slang and uplift the cultural level...
Inventing hobbies of great men is an other O'Nolan pastime. Ardent biographers of the composer Handel were surprised to learn that their idol was such a close student of Parisian slang that he had written an authoritative work on the subject: Handel's L' Argot...
...Marine Corps Chevron at San Diego gathered and published a glossary of leatherneck slang heavily flavored with Chinese, Tagalog, pidgin English and plain Navy. Examples...
...Fear of the frightening depths and complexities of human emotions, fear of her own sentimentality drives her, as it drives Steinbeck and Hemingway, to find safety in a false toughness, to gush, and at the same time to deny the gush by freezing it in the casual chilliness of slang and jargon. Example: "Suddenly look at him out of the bottoms of the green eyes with the fringy lashes, sock her fingers into that wig of hair, twist that lovely perplexed...
...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...