Slang as an indication of character.

Abstract

Now look at sample $:2. CBACKED means . . . broken, looney, cranky, crooked Which of the last four words best explains the meaning of CRACKED' Either "broken" or "looney" will do, so draw a line under either one, but only under one. Now on the rest of the page are a great number of exercises Remember, underline only one word on each line, that word which will give the best meaning. Begin at the top and work all the way down the list until the time is called. SIMP means dumbell, simpleton, sink, scab IVORY DOME means cupola, bonehead, elephant's tusk, foolish IRON MEN means Crusaders, dollars, bones, rubes SHEBNEY means Silky, Kike, Jips, Jew To BE STEWED means drunk, cooked, tanked, batty COTTON means cloth, hut, flour, herd THIS JOINT means this house, knee, plunk, den SQUEEZING means telling, yelling, whooping, tattling VAMOSE means beat it, car, go away, skidaddle HOOTCH means booze, beer, hatch, hoodlum DASH means rush, smear, lack, fasten DEVOUT means lawless, pious, devotion, formal DIP means cannon, vag, dive, thief ELBOW means collar, detective, cinch, bone TIGHT-WAD means booze-artist, narrow, stingy, close-fisted FOBBEE means fob-worker, pick-pocket, watch-fob, mik NUTS means foolish, dippy, fruit, mut ABILITY means diligence, speed, power, dignity LIGHT-FINGESED means fairy-like, thievish, three-fingered, pussyfooted CARGO means load, hem, draught, vehicle DUCK means fowl, hide, beat it, pippin WARM BABY affectionate, woollen clothes, Hot Tamales, boob DUKES means hands, mits, aristocrats, bucks

Character Is Not “Dead” in Management Research: A Review of Individual Character and Organizational-Level Virtue†

“…Not bothering to practice what he so eloquently preached, Filter then failed to provide an even rudimentary definition of character! This conceptual ambiguity was also evident in the writings of a surprising number of early applied scholars (cf., Cushing & Ruch, 1927;Schwesinger, 1926;Slawson, 1922).…”

“…In other words, did the size, shape, and texture of an individual's head determine the type and extent of their moral character? Notwithstanding the occasional foray into the ridiculous and sublime exemplified by phrenology, an underlying theme of this early applied research on character was to help determine which character traits were most appropriate in what profession or work (Slawson, 1922) to identify dishonest and criminal behavior (Cushing & Ruch, 1927;Schwesinger, 1926), and to identify various character classification systems (Cleeton & Knight, 1924;Broom & Bramkamp, 1933).…”

Best practice recommendations for scale construction in organizational research: The development and initial validation of the Character Strength Inventory (CSI)

“…Since the beginning of recorded history, philosophers and practitioners alike have acknowledged the existence and importance of character (Hunter, ). This interest has been shared by a number of pioneering organizational researchers as well, including such esteemed scholars as Mary Goodyear Earle (), Raymond Filter (), Gladys Schwesinger (), and John Slawson (). Unfortunately, agreement on what character is and how it should be operationalized remains highly problematic, with character as traditionally defined being oftentimes conflated with such concepts as values and personality (Wright, , ).…”

The psychology of language.

“…Schwesinger (80) studied the correspondence between delinquency and the knowledge of slang. She devised a slang battery test, which was given to adolescents in a New Jersey reform school.…”