Word: argot
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...expression "Nanette et Rintintin" became so popular as to become part of the Armies' argot...
...next day all over Italy. With this chore attended to the Dictator ate his frugal lunch, returned to his office, locked the door. Then for a time passers-by heard the wild, crashing strains of the Mussolini violin?his "Wooden Woman" as the instrument is called in the argot of the populace...
...lavish use of slanguage, the late Jack Conway is largely responsible. Conway, once a professional baseball player, once a streetcar conductor, was employed when the paper was in its kicking, yelping infancy. A swift writer, he compounded the argot of the ball park, the slum and the green room, helped make possible such journalistic enigmas as: "Crusading Tab Bailies Biz Into Rough Joints," "Ruined by Grift, Carnival Goods Men Turn to Bridge Prize Trade," "Wellman No Like, He Walks...
...rights and released their product here, apparently without opposition. Their White Cargo is an uninspired photograph of the stage play acted by a fair stock company. Early in its proceedings you realize with a shock that it was this play that brought the useful word "acclimatized" into the current argot. There is also, as the young Englishman, new to Africa, proceeds toward moral degeneration, frequent mention of "damp rot." Its novelty is gone, but White Cargo is still an effective piece of theatre, ironic in spite of its loquacity. Best shot: the Englishman whose undoing has been traced being carried...
Startled at the presence of an Austrian Chancellor in Fascist Italy, the Chicago Tribune ("The World's Greatest Newspaper") headlined in the argot of gangland: ITALY GRABS UP AUSTRIA AS ALLY IN BALKAN RING...