Date:    Wed, 13 May 1998 01:25:01 EDT
<br>From:    Bapopik <Bapopik[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM>
<br>Subject: Viagra; Hopefully; Lobby; Covered Wagon; Peace Pipe; Valedictory; et
<br>         al.
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<br>VIAGRA
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<br>      Is it VIE-agra or VEE-agra?
<br>      I've heard both, and it should be documented in "Among the New Words."
<br>      Think "via."  Which is it?
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<br>HOPEFULLY
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<br>      At least two ADSers were searching "hopefully."
<br>     The word was missing from the three CD-ROMs (1690-1849) that I checked.
<br>      "Hopefully" was probably popularized by some FDR speech in 1931 or 1932,
<br>but here are some others that Fred Shapiro may or may not have:
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<br>1708--CORDERIUS AMERICUS: AN ESSAY UPON THE GOOD EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND
<br>WHAT MAY HOPEFULLY BE ATTEMPTED, FOR THE HOPE OF THE FLOCK; IN A FUNERAL
<br>SERMON UPON MR. EZEKIAL CHEEVER, THE ANCIENT AND HONOURABLE MASTER OF THE FREE
<br>SCHOOL IN BOSTON...; WITH AN ELEGY AND AN EPITAPH UPON HIM by Cotton Mather
<br>(1663-1728), printed by John Allen, for Nicholas Boone, published at Boston.
<br>1734--ACCOUNT OF ABIGAIL HITCHINSON, A YOUNG WOMAN HOPEFULLY CONVERTED AT
<br>NORTHAMPTON, MASS. by Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), published by the American
<br>Tract Society at New-York.
<br>1867--HOPEFULLY WAITING AND OTHER VERSES by Anson D. F. Randolph, published by
<br>C. Scribner and Co., New York.
<br>1905--THE ADMIRABLE MIRANDA; WRITTEN FOR THE HOPEFULLY WELL AFFECTED CLUB by
<br>Patty Lee Clark, published by author at Westfield, Mass.
<br>1919--THROUGH THE COGS INCOG, BEING RHYTIMIZED RAMBLINGS FROM THE RAVINGS OF
<br>PVT. DOUGHBOY, 41344, JOHN W. (CASUAL), AS GLEEFULLY GIBBERED AFTER PVT.
<br>DOUGHBOY HAD EMERGED FROM "THE MILL" AT THE BORDEAUX EMBARKATION CAMP AND
<br>HOPEFULLY AWAITED A SHIP FOR HOME by Addison N. Clark, published at Brodeaux,
<br>France.
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<br>LOBBY
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<br>    The "lobby" citation I misplaced was NILES' REGISTER, 27 August 1825, vol.
<br>28, pg. 415, col. 2:
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<br>     _The lobby._  The editor of the Bridgetown, (New Jersey), Whig has been
<br>sued to obtain $5,000 damages, by Garret D. Wall, esq. whom, it seems, he had
<br>charged with some improper practices as a _lobby-member_ of the legislature of
<br>that state.
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<br>COVERED WAGON; PEACE PIPE; VALEDICTORY
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<br>     The new "Performing Arts in Colonial American Newspapers 1690-1783" CD-
<br>ROM has been very helpful, resulting in several antedates.
<br>     AMERICA IN SO MANY WORDS has "covered wagon" as the word-of-the-year for
<br>1745.  "Cover'd waggon" is in the Boston News Letter, 2-9 February 1708.
<br>     "Peace pipe" is AISMW's 1761 word-of-the-year, but the 1 October 1751
<br>Boston Gazette talks about the Cherrokee nation, stating "they join'd hands
<br>and smok'd the pipe of peace together."
<br>     AISMW notes has "valedictorian" as the word-of-the-year for 1759.  It's
<br>stated that Harvard College gave us this term, and "Twenty years later, there
<br>is a record of a valedictory oration at the College of New Jersey in
<br>Princeton...."  Two newspapers in July 1765 note of a "valedictory
<br>oration"--at Harvard.
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<br>GIRL FRIDAY
<br>
<br>     I couldn't find "girl/gal/guy Friday" in the RHHDAS, and Christine
<br>Ammer's AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY OF IDIOMS states on page 247 that the
<br>expression _girl Friday_ "gained currency through a motion picture starring
<br>Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, _His Girl Friday_ (1940)."
<br>    I found it in a Popeye cartoon, NEW YORK EVENING JOURNAL, 3 September
<br>1935, titled "His Girl, Friday."  (I was, of course, looking through the
<br>funnies for Yiddish expressions.  No matter.)
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<br>"YANKEES" AND "BRONX BOMBERS" (continued)
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<br>     In today's New York Times, 12 May 1998, pg. A18, col. 3, there are
<br>several letters-to-the-editor about the New York Yankees.  One letter is
<br>titled "Buy the Name."
<br>     This letter was surely published to make me go absolutely crazy.
<br>     Attached to my _rejected_ letter about the meaning of "New York Yankees"
<br>and "Bronx Bombers" (posted here) was a letter from author Lawrence Ritter,
<br>stating that he would include this material in any forthcoming edition of the
<br>ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NEW YORK CITY.
<br>     And the Times had no space!
<br>     I'd jump out a window, but it's not like end-of-the-world stuff--like if
<br>someone told me SEINFELD was going off the air tomorrow.
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