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[paulzjoh]

I know that "Duesy" predated the car, but are there archives that I can look
this up?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Clements" <sclements at NEO.RR.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 10:34 PM
Subject: Re: Holy Moley!; (1929)


> This was an attempt to antedate any possibly first use of the term 'Holy
> Moly' (or Moley).  Since Captain Marvel first appeared in 1940, my earlier
> cite from 1946 didn't prove that it occured before the comic.  It only
> antedated HDAS.
>
> These current cites only antedates HDAS as MW and OED don't list it.
>
> Using Ancestry.com, from the Gettysburg(PA) Compiler, March 27, 1929.
Page
> 4, col. 5:
>    (From a juvenile story)
>
>      <<"Rolly polly, bright and jolly!"  Maybe "Remmy," my faithful
> typewriter, should have spent it, "Roly poly, holy moly!">>
>
> And from the Arcadia(CA) Tribune, May 4, 1936.  Page 1(I think), col. 7:
>
> (a column entitled "Headline Parade" by a R. M. Orr)
>
>      <<Two swell dames ride with George Shaw
> and he violates the law,
> Runs a signal, can't shift gears,
> Shapely hosiery intereferes.
> Hoover doesn't care for Landon
> Since he cannot lay his hand on
> Alfred and so run his show;
> Anti-Herbie is no go.
> Vandenberg for president
> Is the latest increment
> In the list of candidates
> Swinging on the alley gates.
> Favorite in Derby loses
> As Bold Venture swiftly cruises
> To the finish; favorites tumble
> When cocksureness makes them stumble.
> New Deal is no longer holy
> to Professor Raymond Moley
> When he joins Hugh Johnson's sally
> In an anti-New Deal rally.
> <snip>
>
> My question on this last cite would be is the "New Deal is no longer
holy/to
> Professor Raymond Moley" a possible origin of the "Holy Moley" spelling of
> the term?
>
> SC
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sam Clements" <sclements at NEO.RR.COM>
> To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 11:27 AM
> Subject: Re: Holy Moley!;
>
>
> > From: <Bapopik at AOL.COM>
> > To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 3:08 AM
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > William Woolfolk, 86, Writer Behind Comic-Book Heroes, Dies
> > > By ERIC P. NASH
> > >
> > >     Mr. Woolfolk did not create new characters, but said he coined one
> of
> > the
> > > most famous lines in comics: Captain Marvel's exclamation "Holy
Moley!"
> > "He
> > > created that so Captain Marvel would have something to say when
Captain
> > Marvel
> > > was particularly astonished," said Joanna Martine Woolfolk, his third
> > wife.
> > > They were divorced in 1999.
> >
> > Those third wives! They'l believe anything !
> >
> > From ancestry, Coshocton County Democrat (OH), March 13, 1946:
> >
> > The pudgy-cheeked, wild-haired Jimmy sat back at his familiar desk
> yesterday
> > and ejaculated:
> >
> >    "Holy Moly, what we're going to do with this team!  Look at that list
> of
> > backs--Pat Harder, Chief Johnson, Elmer Angeman, Paul Christman, <snip>"
> >
> > A story about the Chicago Cardinals football team.
> >
> > Sam Clements
> >