Date:  Wed, 7 Feb 1996 10:43:05 -0500

From:  Jesse T Sheidlower <jester[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]PANIX.COM>

Subject: Re: Montgomery Ward



>

>   How wide-spread is the name, "Monkey Wards"?

>   Have any of you heard of it?



We're preparing an entry for this for Volume II of the

Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang.

We have quite a bit of evidence going back to 1912.



Jesse Sheidlower

Random House Reference

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