Word: jargoning
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...mark blow up. It has seen Montagu Norman claw his way up from devaluation to set the pound on gold at the sacred rate of $4.86½. It has seen Hjalmar Schacht counter with moneys designed to fit every purse and purpose. It has listened to the jargon of scores of theories. And it has rightly suspected that all this confusion had much to do with unemployment...
...Yesterday afternoon there presented himself at the window ... a young man of exotic allure, his hair in a turban, his hands in bright lemon-yellow gloves, and speaking with a frightful English jargon. . . . " After some exchange of currency, the Hindu "left the bank with measured step. It was only in the evening, after the closing of the door, that our cashier, while verifying his cash, established, not without bitterness, that he lacked thirty-five bills of various denominations, which represented in total the coquette sum of 130,000 francs...
...there came a hint from Detroit's unconventional Bill Stout, whose famed engineering-jargon dictum is: "Simplicate, and add more light-ness." Said Designer Stout: "Airplane manufacturers know immensely more about making gears than auto manufacturers. They can build a better, bigger...
When sport technicians invaded his pre serve and began to talk in a jargon all their own, McNamee became a master-of-ceremonies, a commentator for Universal Newsreel. Three weeks ago he handled the Elsa Maxwell's Party Line show (Blue, Fridays, 10 p.m. E.W.T.), signed off with his usual "This is Graham McNamee." It was his last sign-off. In a New York hospital (where he had gone because of a streptococcus infection) death last week silenced the voice...
...were showing Soviet films. As Russian resistance to Hitler's onslaught rose, so did Americans' curiosity. At present nearly 200 theaters are playing Soviet pictures, 2,000 carry their short subjects. Variety, the bible of U.S. show business, recently made this turnabout official, crowed in its Blitzkrieg jargon: Vodka Films...