Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 09:12:22 -0700

From: Peter McGraw pmcgraw[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]LINFIELD.EDU

Subject: Re: Golden Oldies



Holden Caulfield's expression in "Catcher in the Rye" was "give her the

(old) time." I don't remember whether the "old" was optional or

obligatory. I never heard this term myself outside of the book, and I'm

not sure whether this is simply because I spent my adoloscent years in the

Pacific Northwest and didn't attend a New England boarding school, or

whether it was a literary creation of J.D. Salinger's.



Peter McGraw

Linfield College

McMinnville, OR