the early days of "baloney"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Cf.

1914 Broughton Bradenburg in _Atlanta Constitution_ (Feb. 14) [unp.]
(NewspArch): "I haf forgot it," says that beautiful bologny-head.

"Bologny-head" may be an ad hoc word for 'German,' from a mistaken notion
that a baloney is a German sausage.

AFAIK, Germans were not called "balonies" in WW1.  But did the boxin'
baloneys of S. C. Witwer have German names?

JL


On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Concerning "got me...boloney," cf. semantically the development (perh.
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