Word: lingo
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...liner over second. Boy, Ducky-Wucky Medwick must have had a heaping dish of Wheaties this morning.") has become a running gag among baseball players, but it sells. The biggest (230 Ibs.) and the best Wheaties' announcer, 37-year-old Arch McDonald from Arkansas, adds a lingo of his own. A baseball buff from boyhood and a baseball announcer for the last eight seasons, Arch McDonald has the job of covering the home games of the World Champion Yankees and the Giants this season over WABC. He will collect a salary of $25,000, will broadcast in turn...
...reason Arch McDonald is high favorite of the fans is that he avoids the hackneyed "hot-corner," "keystone-sack" school of baseball idiom. With Arch a pitcher is a pitcher, not a twirler; a catcher catches, he does not "do the receiving chore." The lingo he uses is his own or fresh from the dugout. Announcing a double play, for example, Arch is likely to report laconically: "two dead birds"; his fans know an easy fly as "a can of corn," an easy, high-hopping grounder as "Big Bill," a curve ball as "No. 2," and a slow ball...
...spirited dynamic farce character, Cindy Lou becomes more than a burlesque of Gone With the Wind, achieves her own mannerisms, drawls her own lingo,* spits her own fire. Actress Claire plays her admirably. A terror for house parties in real life, Cindy Lou is the makings of one on the stage. By comparison with Cindy Lou, Playwright Boothe's wisecracking cutthroats are dramatically flat. While they smack balls at one another's heads, Cindy Lou, her toe dug into the baseline, drops unplayable shots at her opponents' feet...
...could hear any music, and a competition among the 50 amateur bands was called off. No one minded. The young jitterbugs danced to their own mouth organs and to 10? saxophones, to no music at all, voicing the appalling floy floys, shim shams and swizzle-swipes which are the lingo of swing. Four hundred extra policemen marveled that no one was hurt. It was, in the words of Chicago Daily Newsman Gene Morgan, "the strangest manifestation of youthful exuberance perhaps ever witnessed since the Middle Ages' ill-fated Children's Crusade...
...their sessions the Esperantists discussed only one thing: how to popularize their synthetic lingo. Though the League boasts more than 1,500,000 Esperantists all over the world, Esperanto has been threatened for four years by the popularity of Basic English, the skeleton tongue (vocabulary: 850 words) designed by Orthologer Charles Kay Ogden. Esperanto in Esperanto means "one who hopes." The somewhat frantic hope of last week's Kongreso in Londono, Anglujo, was that Esperanto should not become a dead language before it ever showed real signs of life in either of its intended capacities...