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...Chiropodist lingo for corns and calluses, feet, athlete's foot, deformities of toes...
What made Hurley sorest was what he called the practice of some lower-level officials in State "leaking information derogatory to the settled policy of this Government." He added, in characteristic Hurley lingo: "I'm opposed to being leaked upon...
Formidable Lingo. The Freudians' Yearbook (International Universities Press; $10) contains contributions from Dr. Brill; Dr. Gregory Zilboorg (the apostle to the publishers, who psychoanalyzed Marshall Field III and Ralph McAllister Ingersoll); Dr. Karl A. Menninger (head of Topeka's famed Menninger Clinic); Dr. Franz Alexander (high priest of Chicago's Institute for Psychoanalysis). Laymen who would like to take a peek inside the temple will have a hard time; the services are conducted in a formidable lingo, which puts new meanings to such familiar words as sublimation, transference and catharsis, and uses such arcane runes as abalienation...
Morale among the CATS is probably as high as in any training unit. Last week the first issue of Cat-Nip, in some respects similar to The Lucky Bag but with the Japanese words and phrases mingled with the more accustomed lingo, made its four-paged heliotyped appearance...
European ballet is an immigrant whose Americanization is almost complete. Greeted with polite tolerance when it first came to the U.S. 29 years ago, ballet has now become so popular that no one is safe from such cult-lingo as cabrioles, entrechats and jetes. Not only is ballet the major business of three big companies-Ballet Theatre, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, International Ballet-and half-a-hundred local groups, but it has invaded Hollywood and Broadway...