Word: lingo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...message to his widow, President Truman had written what might stand as his epitaph: he was as "incorruptible as the sun." In its own lingo, New York said it better: "He was a great...
This, of course, was the kind of soothing lingo in which cowhands indulge just before they press down the branding iron. The real fashion message for fall appeared in bolder type. It said, quite simply: GET YOURSELF A NEW SHAPE. And if they wanted to buy the new fall dresses, that is exactly what U.S. women would have to do-with the help of pads, laces, stays and whalebone, if necessary...
...Flying Officer Kyte, a feet-off-the-ground burlesque of Britain's wartime flyboys, complete with Samsonian mustaches and a rich flow of RAFfish lingo ("Bang on, wacko, wizard show, I care for that, HA, HA!"). Characteristic Kyte joke: "Whale of a party, sir. I went as radar ... a picture of Queen Anne and a placard pinned to my trousers." Barker: "What did it say?" Kyte: "Dead on the beam...
...above last year's. More attention was being paid to defense, less to pell-mell pace and the hurried ball-slinging that passed for finesse during wartime. The day of the seven-foot goons seemed to be passing. The brightest basketeers were players of medium height (in basketball lingo: 6 ft. 3 in.) and high skill...
...apartment of Harry Brock, junk-dealer grown plump through sleight-of-hand in the war surplus bonanza. Against a backdrop of dignitaries come to sell their souls for a cut in Harry's ill-gotten gains, Billie--once a chorine in "Anything Goes"--alternately flits and slinks. Her Flatbush lingo leaves the wives of senators non-plussed; journalist Paul Verrill is assigned to "teach her a few things...