If your vocabulary is strictly stock, and the teen-agers tell you it's off the cob, you may as well stop bumping your gums. But you, too, can get on the grooby side. A jive-talk glossary that is strictly Dracula has been put out by Parents' Institute, publishers of Calling All Girls (and Parents' Magazine). Some excerpts:
Saloon: Goodby.
Like chicken? Grab a wing: Let's dance.
Bag with a sag: A girl with a bad figure.
F.H.A.: A loan.
Stop bumping your gums: Keep quiet.
Gruesome twosome: A couple going steady.
Worming: Studying.
Rat race: A dance....
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