Ethel Rosenberg, Go Fight City Hall

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Aug 6 02:46:43 UTC 1999


At 7:46 PM -0400 8/5/99, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>--------------------------------------------------------
>IT FEELS LIKE A FRIDAY
>
>   On Tuesday at work, someone got ill.  EMS was called.  Someone cursed
>another judge.  The NYPD was called.  "I can't believe it's only Tuesday,"
>another judge said.  "It feels like a Friday.  It SHOULD be a Friday."
>    I've never seen "feels/seems like a Monday/Friday" recorded.  I
>checked "feels/seems like a" on several databases, and nothing much turned
>up.
>    This is from GO FIGHT CITY HALL (1949, but also copyrighted 1946) by
>Ethel Rosenberg:
>
>pg. 208:  "To me today _feels_ like Wednesday."
>
>...
>pg. 251:  He'll say this much for Hannah: Mrs. Rivkin always embarrasses
>her.  "Ma, _please_!"  He'd like a dollar for every time Hannah has said
>that in his presence.  But go fight City Hall!
>
And for this she was executed!  Go figure!

Larry



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