Black Drama database; Tillamook (1908)

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BLACK DRAMA DATABASE

   NYU gets a BLACK DRAMA database.  The plays are from 1850 to the present.
It's from the same people who do the "letters and diaries" databases (Civil
War; North American Women; British and Irish Women).
   Maybe an NYU Bobst Library librarian who wrote a book on the AFRICAN
THEATRE knows more about it.
   I didn't find it that helpful.

SLANG--Only 15 uninteresting hits.
SOUL FOOD--"Soul food, bitch" is in A MINOR SCENE (1966) by Ed Bullins.
BIG APPLE--"Wouldn't you like to ride up to the Big Apple with me, and let me
treat you to a wimpy?" is in JOY TO MY SOUL (1937) by Langston Hughes.
BOOGIE WOOGIE--"Boogie woogie" in SHAKESPEARE IN HARLEM (1942) by Langston
Hughes.

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DRAG RACE, OLD COLLEGE TRY

   The "drag race" article is at:

http://espn.go.com/magazine/

   I'm having trouble opening the site up.  I don't know if my work got in--I
always get contacted on these things late.
   I went to the local newsstand and bought the March 31, 2003 ESPN MAGAZINE,
but it looks like it's last week's issue."What's the old college try?" (by
the same ANSWER GUY who contacted me) is on page 42.  He asked "Ask Oxford"
(Margot Charlton answered),  who read the 1927 citation from the HISTORICAL
DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN SLANG, which got it from our own AMERICAN SPEECH.
   I had posted 1919 and 1924 citations here.  Oxford should have my work..
Where did my work go?
   Yeesh.  Two "answer guys" miss my stuff in the past three days.  That's
why I do parking tickets.

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TILLAMOOK

   Is DARE interested in "Tillamook"?    Let's check out the whiz behind
Fairway's cheese section, the big cheese himself:

CHEESE PRIMER
by Steve Jenkins
New York: Workman Publishing
1996
Pg. 419:  TILLAMOOK COUNTY CREAMERY ASSOCIATION
   This is a big outfit, a cooperative that dates back to 1909.

   This arrived today from NYPL's "offsite":

REPORT OF THE 1907 CONVENTION OF THE
OREGON STATE DAIRY ASSOCIATION
Portland, Oregon: Oregon State Dairy Association
1908
Pg. 46 (Captions to three photos--ed.):
      IN TILLAMOOK COUNTY
   (1) Many large barns like this in Tillamook County, Oregon.
   (2) Many cheese factories like this in Tillamook County, Oregon.
   (3) Tons of cheese in curing room of one of Tillamook County factories.