Passing the Lemon; Card-Carrying Heterosexual

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   It appears that Fred Shapiro now has access to ProQuest's CHICAGO TRIBUNE, and all that jazz.  It's not available here at NYU.
   Work today was great.  8:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m., all to earn what most NYC lawyers make in about one hour.  At 7 p.m., the people in my room (you know the room) were fanning themselves with their parking tickets.  Life just doesn't get much lower than this, but it somehow always does.

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PASSING THE LEMON

   No, not that "passing gas" kind of passing!


   14 May 2004, NEW YORK POST, pg. 30, col. 3:
_Klein squeezes_
_"lemon passing"_
   Schools Chancellor Joel Klein has urged principals to stop the practice called "passing the lemon"--giving incompetent teachers satisfactory ratings if they agree to transfer to another school.

   14 May 2004, NEW YORK POST (editorials), pg. 34, col. 1:
_Squeezing the Schools' Lemons_

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CARD-CARRYING HETEROSEXUAL

   "The underlying subtext of gladiator movies has always been one of suppressed homoeroticism, and 'Troy' falls over itself to make sure every character is a steadfast, card-carrying heterosexual--Greek history and mythology be damned."
---NEW YORK SUN film review of "Troy," 14 May 2004, pg. 19, col. 6.

CARD-CARRYING HETEROSEXUAL--43 Google hits, 82 Google Groups hits
CARD-CARRYING HOMOSEXUAL--46 Google hits, 73 Google Groups hits

(OED)
14. Special combs.: card-carrying a., having a membership card of a specified organization, esp. of the Communist Party; so card-carrier;
1948 B. ANDREWS Washington Witch Hunt ii. 96 The most dangerous Communists in the nation today are not the open, avowed, *card-carrying party members. 1953 Wall St. Jrnl. 18 Aug. 2/3 ‘Millions of workers who are just card-carrying members’ and who take no interest in union affairs.

   Heterosexuals are supposed to carry cards?  Where do you get these cards?  Did I miss out on the Jennifer Aniston card?


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Berkshire Evening Eagle - 10/1/1947
...can not be proved they are actual CARD-CARRYING COMMUNISTS. The top union.....Law, that none of Its officials are COMMUNISTS. Both Matles and Emspak have..
Pittsfield, Massachusetts   Wednesday, October 01, 1947  676 k

Nevada State Journal - 10/29/1947
...movie writers, all identified as CARD-CARRYING COMMUNIST party members.....On last July 17, an American jeep CARRYING an officer and two enlisted men..
Reno, Nevada   Wednesday, October 29, 1947  630 k