How's Your Slang? (1938); Bingo; O. O. McIntyre

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   From THIS WEEK magazine, NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 20 February 1938, pg. 11, col. 3:

_How's Your Slang?_
by A. I. GREEN
(...)
DEFINITION            A        B        C
1. to inform           chisel   snitch   douse
2. money               hooch    jack     brunch
3. a slow-witted person guff    gimper   goof
4. to go away          scram    sponge   razz
5. a lock-up           hoosegow mike     benny
6. a heap              poppycock moll    oodle
7. to strike suddenly  rat      biff     vamp
8. a professional talker josser jawsmith rod
9. a petty thief       grifter  gigolo   monicker
10. an iinocent victim jinx     lame duck fall guy
11. bold               slick    shirty   nutty
12. a pilferer         scrounger wise guy jazzbo

(ANSWERS BELOW)

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BINGO (continued)

   From THIS WEEK, NYHT, "Bingo!", (Pg. number cut off), col. 3:

   Despite its obvious derivation from lotto, which itself is a variation of the ancient Greek pastime, bingo recently has been claimed as the brainchild (Col. 4--ed.) of two Americans.  Hugh J. Ward, of Hazlewood, Pittsburgh, was the first to put himself forward as the "inventor" of the game.  He got the idea, he said, at the Toronto Exposition in 1916, when he saw several Canadian soldiers playing a game they called "horsey-horsey."  Also similar to lotto, the soldiers' game had 109 combinations.  Ward says he reduced the combinations to 75, dubbed his game bingo, and began operating it at carnivals.
   Several Chicago companies started making bingo sets in 1924, and in 1933, as the game began to achieve popularity, Ward wrote a book of bingo rules and published it.  Directly it was copyrighted.
   (...)(Col. 5--ed.)
   The other "inventor" had better luck.  A Massachusetts game manufacturer, who claimed to have popularized the game in 1933, argued that he had coined the word "beano."  Taking the case into court, he won the sole right to that name, and bingo sponsors were forbidden to call their games beano unless they used his equipment. (...)

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O. O. McINTYRE

   O. O. McIntyre wrote a widely syndicated column, "New York Day by Day."
   From his obituary in the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 15 February 1938, pg. 14, col. 2:

   Mr. McIntyre not only told his readers what they wanted to know, but told it in a phraseology all his own.  When his health was good he felt "chirky"; his modern, ornate living room on Park Avenue was, to him, "a cozy higgledy-piggledy"; a favorite pianist of his would hit the "go-gollies" out of a piano.  Side observation contained in his column appeared daily under such characterizations as "Bagatelles," "Purely personal piffle," "look-alikes," "Add remembrances" and "One word descriptions of."  His favorite seemed to be "Thingumbobs," which included such observations as "Leopold Stokowski likes a midnight hamburger with onions, too."

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HOW'S YOUR SLANG?

   From pg. 21, col. 1:

"Slang" Answers
1. B
2. B
3. C
4. A
5. A
6. C
7. B
8. B
9. A
10. C
11. B
12. A