Pink Slip Party (1939)

[Beverly Flanigan]

Barry, I wish you wouldn't complain about your personal problems during
this trying time.  Life IS a mess this week, but for all of us--and
thousands of ordinary New Yorkers also aren't getting paid this week, and
may not be for a long, long time.  Please, cool it.


At 07:14 AM 9/14/01 -0400, you wrote:
>      Life's a mess.
>      I guess I'll have to go into work in the Bronx.  No phone call.  No
> message on the calendar unit phone.  Nothing on the web site.  Of course,
> knowing this city, it'll probably be closed and I won't get paid for
> showing up.
>      My Keytronic keyboard is all messed up today and doesn't register
> certain keys.
>
>-------------------------------------------------------
>PINK SLIP PARTY
>
>    From FLASH!, 15 February 1939, pg. 25, col. 1:
>
>WPA OPTIMISM--That's what we called it when we heard about the "PINK
>SLIPS" party the lads threw up in Harlem who had received their (Form 403)
>PINK SLIPS, which meant the end of their project jobs.
>
>--------------------------------------------------------
>BUNNY HUG
>
>    From FLASH!, 3 January 1938, pg. 18, col. 2:
>
>    SWING SESSIONS, an outgrowth of the currently popular music played by
> the "jam units" have outmoded to an extent the former type of close
> "bunny-hug" dancing that was the bane of frat house hops, as in upper
> left photo.  The second panel illurates a modified version of the
> "bunny-hug," bordering more on the line of the "love-lock."
>
>--------------------------------------------------------
>PANSY, GAY
>
>FLASH!, 19 April 1938, pg. 13, col. 2:  OCTOBER 1937  "Pansys" invade most
>frequented nite spots.  Today pansy parade moves Westward, finds fertile
>field in Pgh. nite clubs.
>(Also in column in "At present Jack Greenless is in seclusion in one of
>Philly's better hospital wards as an interne"--ed.)
>
>FLASH!, 3 May 1938, pg. 28, col. 2:  DECEMBER 1937  All Philly is at
>present agog over the Penn Relay Carnival on the 29th and 30th with the
>Gays, Alphas, and the Do-Ki-Chi's entertaining the visiting socialites.
>
>--------------------------------------------------------
>SWINGCERT
>
>    From FLASH!, 21 June 1938, pg. 19, col. 2:
>
>_THOUSANDS JAM RANDALL_
>_ISLAND FOR "SWINGCERT"_
>SWING ADDICTS FROM THE CRADLE TO THE HOME FOR THE INFIRM had their fill of
>"killer dillers," "solid senders," "slap," "rush," and "lush" ditties when
>New York's radio station WNEW and Martin Block staged their first open-air
>swing carnival.
>
>--------------------------------------------------------
>BOOGIE WOOGIE
>
>    From FLASH!, 15 November 1938, pg. 23, col. 2:
>
>    The ROLLING JITTERBUGS attempted all sorts of antics while on skates,
> including the popular "shag," "lindy hop," and the current sensation, the
> "boogie woogie."
>
>--------------------------------------------------------
>PIG MEAT, BUGGY
>
>    From FLASH!, letters, 1 November 1938, pg. 4, col. 1:
>
>    Please if possible raise the standard of your magazine by eliminating
> such words as "pig meat" and other "buggy" material.
>
>--------------------------------------------------------
>CARTOON CAPTIONS
>
>FLASH!, 24 January 1938, pg. 19, col. 2:  "I'LL SHOW YOU WHO WEAR THE
>PANTS AROUND HERE!!"  (Wife to husband--ed.)
>
>FLASH!, 3 May 1938, pg. 35:  "BOY!  WHAT'A FANNY"  (Two children looking
>at a woman's rear--ed.)
>
>--------------------------------------------------------
>HOT-DOG EATING CONTEST?
>
>    Photo caption from FLASH!, 17 January 1938, pg. 12, col. 1:
>
>    JACK PARKER OF PITTSBURGH holds some sort of gustatorial record.  He
> ate forty-four hot dogs and drank seven glasses of beer at a Pgh.
> polticial meeting some few weeks past, and the following day he ate
> fifteen more hot dogs and drank five bottles of Pepsi-Cola for a chaser.


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Beverly Olson Flanigan         Department of Linguistics
Ohio University                     Athens, OH  45701
Ph.: (740) 593-4568              Fax: (740) 593-2967
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