Ballpark Jinx, Bugs; Mole; Shotgun Marriage

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BALLPARK JINX

     Barron's has a story on the "ballpark jinx."  Name a ballpark after your
company, see your company stock go down.  Also, "stadium jinx."
     Hey, maybe the Yankees will move to Manhattan--into nice new Kosmo.com
Stadium?

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GRAND OLD DEMOCRATIC PARTY

     From the NEW YORK DISPATCH, 20 May 1883, pg. 4, col. 4:

     The "grand old Democratic party" doesn't die on slight occasion.

     The MOA has added a few pre-1885 cites ("grand old party" and "grand old
Democratic party") from what I had posted here in 1996 and 1997:

1860, A POLITICAL TEXT-BOOK FOR 1860 by Horace Greeley, pg. 46, col.
2--"Grand old party" is the Democratic one.
4 July 1862, DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION OF OHIO--"Grand old party" is the
Democratic one.
August 1868, GALAXY, pg. 215--"Grand old party" is ?
June 1876, NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION, MISSOURI--"The Democratic
party--that grand old party..."
June 1881, HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, pg. 147, col. 2--"Grand old party"
is the Democratic one.
March 1884, CENTURY, pg. 671, col. 1--Both parties claim label.
March 1884, CENTURY, pg. 711, col. 2--"Grand old party" is the Democratic one.

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BUGS

     From the NEW YORK DISPATCH, 29 April 1883, pg. 4, col. 5:

     WHEN officers of the navy get too full they say that they have had "too
many bugs."  What is the difference between a midshipman's allowance and a
servant girl's picture?  One's a Middy's bug, and the other's a Biddy's mug.
Parties with guns are notified to keep off as there is hereditary small-pox
in this office.

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MOLE

     For what it's worth for "mole" (spy stuff), this is from the NEW YORK
DISPATCH, 25 March 1883, pg. 1, col. 4:

_THE "MOLE'S" THEORY._
_THE CARVER STREET MURDER._
_LIEUTENANT LEAMINGTON'S MISTRESS._
_A LANDLORD'S STORY._
_"Her Throat Cut from Ear to Ear."_
_THE ANALYSIS OF A CRIME._
_THE MYSTERY SOLVED._
(...)
   Joe Dayton, who was given the soubriquet of "The Mole," from his habit of
continually offering theories to various police officials, with whom while he
occupied the position of a Bow street runner, he had become acquainted.  He
was something of an analytical critic of the circumstances which attended the
perpetration of a crime, and the little dried-up ferret-eyed old fellow was
regarded by many of the force as a sort of Sir Oracle in detective matters.

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SHOTGUN MARRIAGE

     OED has "shotgun marriage" from 1929 and "shotgun wedding" (don't know
if that applies to Playboy's Darva Conger) from 1927.  The terms didn't show
up at all on MOA.
     The NEW YORK DISPATCH has a long article 30 December 1883, pg. 7, col. 3:

_A SHOTGUN MARRIAGE._
_How an Armed Body of Men Procured a Marriage License._
(From the St. Joseph, Mo., Gazette.)

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ONE-EYED SODA WATER

     The RHHDAS has some "one-eyed," but not this (and only one cite in the
1800s).  From the NEW YORK DISPATCH, 30 December 1883, pg. 4, col. 5:

     WHISKY bought in drug stores is now known as "One-eyed soda-water,"
because a man has to wink before he can get it.

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TAKE THE WHOLE BAKERY

     It shouldn't surprise that THE MIXICOLOGIST was published in Cincinnati.
 The NEW YORK DISPATCH, 11 March 1883, pg. 4, col. 6:  "LOUSVILLE and
Cincinnati take the whole bakery as watering places."  (The RHHDAS has a
similar cite from 1864 under "take the cake.")
    The New York Dispatch had the largest Sunday circulation in America.  It
featured lots of anecdotal stories, many about drinking.  No "Manhattan" or
"Martinez" through 1883, unfortunately.