Word: lingo
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...copied Madden's scrawly rebuke, showed it to their friends. Madden became a "character." His joint was on the map for Yalemen, Park Avenue debs, Long Island's polo crowd. Encouraged by his customers, Joe began to write weekly essays-hard-earned wisdom couched in his own lingo. He had his pieces punctuated by a race-track handicapper with a high-school education, mailed them to his clientele. In ivy-clad Eastern dormitories, Madden's essays had a wider circulation than those of Lamb, Addison or Steele. Today Joe Madden sends his weekly bulletins...
...mold "boots" (Navy lingo for recruits) into the indefinable likeness of a Marine takes hard work on a rigid regimen; close order drill, combat exercises, firing on the range that goes with every Marine camp, endless heckling by N. C. O.s until the recruits learn to keep their eyes front, their chins in, their chests out. (Because in early days Marines wore high leather stocks that kept their heads up, sailors nicknamed them "leathernecks.") To mold a boot into the traditions of the Corps, to fire him with the conviction that a Marine is better than any other fighting...
...good once-over ahead of time. Not that Shakespeare is "deep" or needs unravelling. But it only stands to reason that an author who draws on such a wide varsity of images and people should be filled with references that don't mean an awful lot in 20th Century lingo...
Civilians lost sleep and work. Each night from 10 p.m. until dawn the noise of bombs and "ack ack" (signaling lingo for A. A. - antiaircraft) was almost unbearable, though the defense barrage was comforting. It was also expensive - ?250,000 nightly - and brought down only 3% to 5% of bagged planes. The siren was a nerve-tearing noise. Dr. Henry Albert Wilson, Bishop of Chelmsford, was dead in earnest when he wrote: "I suggest a gay cockadoodle-doo repeated half a dozen times would be in the nature of a whistle to keep our courage up instead of a dole...
...Under Construction" in loose naval lingo means variously that new ships are: 1) in the prefabrication stage (when parts are being designed, ordered, made); 2) actually being built in shipyards; 3) in fitting-out basins, where newly launched hulls are armored and equipped. By last month the U. S. Navy could say that it had thus under construction an additional, enormous fleet, to be completed in the following yearly quotas...