"Piled Higher and Deeper"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Thanks, Alison and Doug.

  The "Douglas" referred to was undoubtedly Sen. Paul H. Douglas, Ph.D. (1892-1976), who is elsewhere associated with the phrase, though years after the _Post_ cite.

  Douglas was awarded the Ph.D. in economics at Columbia in 1921, so perhaps the heat is off Yale. Even his initials were PHD.

  JL

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- Doug Wilson posted:
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>_Washington Post_, 31 Aug. 1959: p. A2:
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I don't know which Douglas was talking (Wm. O., perhaps?) but he was right
in starting with "It is sometimes said," since this saying had been around
for some time by 1959, certainly through the 50's & I'd guess probably back
to the 20's. The version I knew was "higher & drier."
AM




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