Wny You BY WEBB B. GARRISON Illustrated ly Henry R. Martin ABINGDON
PRESS NEW YORK NASHVILLE To BRUCE and BEATRICE BLACKMAR GOULD
Connoisseurs of Words Foreword Words and phrases are like persons.
Some are dull and stodgy, while others are very good company
indeed. It is from the ranks of the latter group that the words in
this volume have been selected. Interest is the standard which
determined whether or not a particular word or phrase should be
included. Dedicated though it is to the general reader, it may be
used with confidence by persons with special interests. In general,
word-histories are developed along lines of standard scholarship.
There are a few exceptions accounts based upon tradition. These
stories, included because of their interest, are clearly indicated
as based upon popular accounts. Much of the material included in
this collection was originally pub lished in the popular magazines
which are listed on the acknowledg ments page. Final research was
done in the Joint University Library, Nashville, Tennessee. Many
courtesies were extended by Dr. A. F. Kuhlman, director, and Mrs.
Paul L. Wayman, circulation librarian. A Ladies Home Journal reader
first suggested that this material should be published in book
form. Coming as it did from a reader in the Transvaal, Africa, the
suggestion carried much weight though it was not acted upon for
some months. Unfortunately, that readers letter has been lost, so
it is impossible to give due credit by name. WEBB B. GARJEUSON 7
Acknowledgments Much of the material in this volume was originally
published as short features in general and specialized magazines.
Special thanks are due editors and publishers of these magazines,
both forencouragement in research and for permission to reprint
numerous items. Publishers involved, and magazines in which the
material was originally pub lished, are listed below Andrus
Publishing Co. for cushion, furniture, mahogany, and suite from
Furniture Digest. Catholic Digest, Inc., for asylum awful, batiste,
bedlam bead cancel, canter, cardinal, to chime in, clerk, crib,
diaper, dumbbell, gabardine, helpmate, journal, ledger, lobby,
marigold, musical notes noon, polite, primer sign, to a t, and
thinking cap from Catholic Digest. Chesapeake and Ohio Railway for
caboose, to call on the car pet conductor, crosstie, deadhead,
engineer, freight, gon dola, hogger, news butch, spur, station,
train, and tun nel from Tracks. Chilton Company, Inc., for boot,
heel, last, moccasin, shoe, and sole from Boot and Shoe Recorder.
The Curtis Publishing Company for Bible, bigwig, blarney, blue
jeans, Blue Monday, bombast, boss, to bring home the bacon,
calendar, camera, canary, compact companion, Dixie, doily, to eat
ones hat, a feather in ones cap, flower names, fruit names, grass
widow, heckle, husband, infan try, lord, to nag patent, salary,
soft soap sundae, to 9 WHY YOU SAY IT take with a grain of salt to
tie the knot and wife from Ladies Home Journal. Dell Publishing
Co., Inc., for serenade from Dell Crossword An nual easel, earshot
villain from Dell Crossword Puzzles con template, fanatic,
pedigree, zoo from Official Crossword Puzzles and abracadabra,
ancient gods anecdote, banquet, bogey, spire from Pocket Crossword
Puzzles. Detective World, Inc., for aboveboard, apache, assassin,
bobby, carpetbagger, catchpenny, to crib, double cross, fili
buster, footpad, gun, gyp, hoax, moll, to pull the woolover ones
eyes, to steal thunder, stool pigeon, and thug from Detective
World. Farrell Publishing Corp, for apple-pie order etiquette, mil
liner, mind your ps and qs, mug, and pin money from The Woman.
Father Bakers Homes of Charity for best foot forward boner,
chairman, coward, czar, falsehood, to get hep grain, grocer, in the
groove, learn by heart, lion, mail, outlaw, parlor, to pay the
piper piano, piker, to put a flea in ones ear, to read the riot
act, roughneck, shoddy, vandal, and to be at loose ends from The
Victorian. Fawcett Publications, Inc...
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