Kimby (Keep It in My Back Yard); "Hell with the lid off" (1868)

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KIMBY
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Too bad I just get this one cite.
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Community Gazettes - District 10 ... to social-service offices in their neighborhoods, it is an unexpected response, less Nimby (Not in My Back Yard) than Kimby (Keep It in My Back Yard). ...
www.gothamgazette.com/community/10/news - 32k - Cached - Similar pages
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"HELL WITH THE LID OFF" (PITTSBURGH)
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Does Fred have this quote?
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(GOOGLE)
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Exhibit gives Pittsburgh's image a makeover - PittsburghLIVE.com
What: Photographs of Pittsburgh by nine local photojournalists. ... our town -- "Smoky
City," "Hell with the lid off" and, of course, "Steel City" -- which, ...
www.pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s_324306.html - 37k - Jun 18, 2005 - Cached - Similar pages
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Western PA History: Activities
Research key events and people in Pittsburgh's history and plot them on the timeline
... Gateway to the West; Smoky City; Hell with the lid off; Iron City ...
www.wqed.org/erc/pghist/units/WPAhist/WPAhist_act.shtml - 41k - Cached - Similar pages
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http://www.post-gazette.com/columnists/20031119sally104col2p2.asp
Most famously, Boston writer James Parton (not Charles Dickens, who often gets the credit/blame) described the town as "hell with the lid off" in 1868. That's the kind of insult that sticks -- 135 years later we're still smarting.

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(MAKING OF AMERICA--CORNELL)
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Pittsburg, by James Parton: pp. 17-36
p. 21 1 match of 'hell with the lid'
  in: Title:The Atlantic monthly. / Volume 21, Issue 123
Publisher:Atlantic Monthly Co.Publication Date:January 1868
City:BostonPages:770 page images in vol.

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(AMERICAN PERIODICAL SERIES)
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The Home Circle.; CHATTY TALKS TO THE GIRLS.
CHATTY BROOKS. Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine (1873-1879). Philadelphia: Aug 1878. Vol. 46, Iss. 8; p. 385 (3 pages)
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PITTSBURG: A CITY ASHAMED; THE STORY OF A CITIZENS' PARTY THAT BROKE THROUGH ONE RING INTO ANOTHER
BY LINCOLN STEFFENS. McClure's Magazine (1893-1926). New York: May 1903. Vol. VOL. XXI, Iss. No. 1; p. 24 (16 pages)
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PITTSBURG AT NIGHT
DRAWN BY JULES GUERIN. McClure's Magazine (1893-1926). New York: May 1903. Vol. VOL. XXI, Iss. No. 1; p. 0_001 (1 page)
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(PROQUEST HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS)
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THE SATURDAY EXODUS.; SCENES AT THE VESTRY-STREET WHARF GOING UP THE HUDSON.
New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Aug 13, 1873. p. 2 (1 page) :
There is no doubt that New-York City can, when it chooses, be as hot a place as there is in the world, even so hot as to give an aptness to the profane excalamation of the California digger, that it is "like hell with the lid off."