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<br>There are 11 messages totalling 426 lines in this issue.
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<br>Topics of the day:
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<br>  1. Windy City; Gooseberry; Greasers; Lynch; O. K.; Shyster
<br>  2. Think Different (3)
<br>  3. eddress=email address (3)
<br>  4. Lynch
<br>  5. RE Re: Think Different (2)
<br>  6. "Cool beans!"
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<br>Date:    Sun, 29 Mar 1998 01:56:14 EST
<br>From:    Bapopik  Bapopik[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM 
<br>Subject: Windy City; Gooseberry; Greasers; Lynch; O. K.; Shyster
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<br>     I went to the Library of Congress on one of my famous Saturday sleep-
<br>four-hours-on-a-Greyhound-bus runs.  I was particularly looking for "Windy
<br>City," "O.K.," and "shyster."  I was successful on one of the three.
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<br>GOOSEBERRY
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<br>     The RHHDAS has several entries for "gooseberry."  For the meaning "a
<br>fool," the earliest date is 1890.  Other entries date from 1837.
<br>     This (I was really looking for--never mind!) is from the ILLINOIS
<br>ADVOCATE (Vandalia, Ill.), 4 February 1835, pg. 1, col. 5:
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<br>     _Berry-ology_.--At Shad_berry_, Massachusetts, Mr. Nehemiah Black _berry_
<br>was married, on the 10th ult. to Miss Catharine Elder_berry_, of Dan_bury_, by
<br>the Rev. Mr. Cran_berry_.  We hope none of their descendants will ever prove
<br>to be _gooseberrys_.--_N. Y. Sun_.
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<br>GREASERS
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<br>      The movie GREASE is being re-released.  I found several "greasers" in
<br>1846 and 1847 (while looking for "shyster").  The RHHDAS has one 1836 cite
<br>before 1846.
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<br>1 December 1846, CHICAGO DEMOCRAT, pg. 2, col. 4.
<br>     "GOV. KEARNEY'S ADDRESS TO THE SANTA FE-IANS.  Yellow skins, Greasers, or
<br>what you call yourselves--Mexicans you have ceased to be..."
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<br>18 May 1847, CHICAGO DEMOCRAT, pg. 2, col. 2.
<br>     A poem has the lines "He lays the'Greasers' on quite tasty" and "The
<br>'Greasers' run with a wild stampede."  A letter in the same column reads, "I
<br>was within ten steps of the '_greasers_,' as the Mexicans are called..."
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<br>23 January 1847, CHICAGO DEMOCRAT, pg. 4, col. 3.
<br>     Seven kinds of Mexican (or "Greaser") are shown in _The Mixed Breeds of
<br>Mexico_:
<br>1. Europeans, called Chapetores or Gopuchins.
<br>2. Creoles, or native whites of European extraction.
<br>3. Mestizzos, the offspring of whites and Indians.
<br>4. Mulattoes, the offspring of whites and negroes, with their various
<br>modifications.
<br>5. Aboriginal Indians, a lazy, good natured race, constituting a third of the
<br>population.
<br>6. African negroes, and their descendants, considered as good as the best in
<br>that country.
<br>7. Zamboes, or Chinoes, the offspring of negroes and Indians, about the
<br>meanest race on God's earth.  (Language in original--ed.)
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<br>LYNCH LAW
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<br>     The RHHDAS has 1835 as the earliest cite and mentions a paper by Mitford
<br>Mathews; the OED has earlier citations and a key paper was written by ALBERT
<br>Matthews.
<br>     In the ILLINOIS ADVOCATE (Vandalia, Ill.) of 1835, "lynch" was cited from
<br>the Boston Daily Advertiser, the Boston Post, and the Boston Statesman.  The
<br>Boston newspapers of October-December 1835 should help us with a mother lode,
<br>but that's a project for a Boston trip of another day.
<br>    AMERICA IN SO MANY WORDS has "lynch law" as the word-of-the-year for 1780.
<br>On page 85, it's written that "lynchings took place in every part of the
<br>country except New England."
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<br>O.K.
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<br>     FIRST APPROACH:  I tried a new approach to "O.K.," but it was not
<br>successful.  I looked up the Boston Post (I had previously checked the Boston
<br>Globe and Boston Transcript in the NYPL) for February-June 1875 (the "spelling
<br>bee" year).  I found many spelling "matches"--and a "Spelling Bee" on 22 March
<br>1875, pg. 1, col. 9--but no references to Andrew Jackson's spelling or "O. K."
<br>(as in the Pittsburgh article).
<br>    SECOND APPROACH:  There was a Sunday question and answers column that ran
<br>in the Louisville Courier-Journal.  I've gone through many years of many such
<br>columns (in the Brooklyn Eagle, the NY Sun, the Boston Transcript, the San
<br>Francisco Call) and have found many, many unhelpful "O. K." queries.
<br>Louisville C-J editor Henry Watterson probably knew Boston Post editor Charles
<br>Gordon Greene, so the Louisville "O. K." Q&A might be different.  However, the
<br>NYPL doesn't have the Louisville Courier-Journal, and my search time in DC is
<br>very limited.
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<br>SHYSTER
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<br>     There's a "shyster" in the CHICAGO DEMOCRAT, but I haven't found it.
<br>     To follow up on the "shyster" citation posted here recently, I requested
<br>the DEMOCRAT from 1846-1849.  The Library of Congress didn't have it on film,
<br>and had no volumes at all from 1848-1849.  I read through what it had from
<br>October 1846-November 1847.
<br>    Several articles made fun of lawyers (13 October 1846, pg. 3, col. 3 is an
<br>example), but the DEMOCRAT called them "pettifoggers" at this time.
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<br>WINDY CITY
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<br>    Our first citation is now the LOUISVILLE COURIER-JOURNAL, 10 January 1886,
<br>pg. 4, col. 5:
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<br>    THE WINDY CITY.
<br>All Kinds of Weather Render Life
<br>    Disagreeable in Chicago.
<br>    CHICAGO, Jan. 9.--A strong wind is blowing throughout Northern Illinois,
<br>drifting the snow badly, but the cold is not so intense as that which has
<br>prevailed West and North.  (...)
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<br>     The story below from Boston is headed "ON THE WATER."
<br>     This is, perhaps, Henry Watterson's and the Louisville Courier-Journal's
<br>first use of "Windy City"--from a January 1886 windstorm.  I have to check
<br>more issues of the newspaper and to recheck the storm in the Chicago papers,
<br>but this could be it.
<br>      It made my day.
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