Studies in Slang, VII: table of contents

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

Dear members of ads-l, ans-l, and list SLANG,
    As I mentioned to ads-l a few days ago, Barry Popik and I have just published Studies in Slang, vol. 7; 150 copies were run off at my campus' print shop, and the cost per copy is is $30 ($25 + $5 mailing cost).
The table of contents appears below my signoff.

        Anyone interested in a copy may order directly from me.  Check should be made payable to Gerald Cohen and mailed to me at: Department of Arts, Languages, and Philosophy, University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla MO 65409, USA.

     If there are any questions, please feel free to contact me. Incidentally, this e-mail may distort the layout of the Contents pages, but in hard-copy it looks fine.

Gerald Cohen
Professor of Foreign Languages
Research specialty: Etymology
e-mail: gcohen at umr.edu

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[Contents of Studies in Slang, VII]:

> Preface....................................................................vii
>
> BARRY POPIK and GERALD COHEN: Material for the study
>       of hash-house lingo..........................1
>
> BARRY POPIK: Coinage of > '> The Windy City> '>  is often incorr-
>       ectly attributed to NYC editor Charles Dana, who--in
>       the 1889-1890 competition for the 1893 World> '> s
>       Fair--allegedly spoke of Chicago> '> s > '> windy politicians> '> ........50
>       Reprint of NATHAN BIERMA> '> s Chicago-Tribune article
>            on the origin of > '> The Windy City> '>  (Dec. 7, 2004,
>            Tempo section, pp. 1, 5)..........................................72
>
> BARRY POPIK: Tin Pan Alley origin is explained in a 1903
>       newspaper article..........................................................78
>
> GERALD COHEN: To need hair of the dog that bit you > '> need
>       a bit more booze to get over a hangover...........................80
>
> GERALD COHEN: Lose one> '> s marbles--Jonathan Lighter> '> s
>       1902 attestation refutes my suggestion of a 1920s
>       Missouri origin of the expression. ...................................83
>
> BARRY POPIK: Cakewalk--1897 New-Orleans Times-Democrat
>       article explains it was originally a marriage ceremony
>       among French blacks in Louisiana...................................85
>
> GERALD COHEN: Slang poof  > '> effeminate man, male
>       homosexual> '> ..................................................    ........90
>
> GERALD COHEN (compiler): Michael Jackson> '> s childish but derogatory term spabooks > '> spooks> '>  (black people).......100
>
> GERALD COHEN (compiler): PAUL JOHNSON: Morse Code
>       tl (for toilet lid) was used to insult radio operators
>       with a heavy hand; hence lid  > '> incompetent operator> '>
>        (with information also from RICK KENNERLY)......................103
>
> GERALD COHEN: Job lot (a derogatory term).............................107
>
> GERALD COHEN (compiler): Loose as a goose--the original       reference is to loose bowels.................................109
>
> BARRY POPIK: Slang applesauce (spoken dismissively)
>       derives from a once popular but corny joke, possibly
>       in a minstrel context............................................112
>
> MIKE SALOVESH:  Con-men> '> s lingo the big store > '> a false-
>       front operation set up for the purpose of separating
>       a wealthy victim from a lot of cash> '> ...........................115
>
> BARRY POPIK: Material for the study of eat crow: three
>       versions of humorous story agree that Scotch snuff
>       made the boiled crow particularly unappetizing................119
>
> BARRY POPIK: 1935 New York Sun article on racket slang.......123
>
> BARRY POPIK: 1885 newspaper article on the slang
>       response > '> I should smile> '>  and the greeting > '> Well,
>       what do you know?> '> ......................................................132
>
> BARRY POPIK: 1874 article about current slang.........................136
>
> BARRY POPIK: 1933 High-school slang,....................................142
>
> BARRY POPIK: Theater/varieties/circus slang: 1879 article
>       in Cincinnati Enquirer............................... ............144
>
> BARRY POPIK: Circus slang: 1919 item in Los Angeles
>       Times..................................................................153
>
> BARRY POPIK:  1913 Fort Wayne Sentinel article on slang:
>       are you jerry to the old jazz? (San Francisco);
>       hod dickety dog (Indianapolis); gazipe (St. Louis);
>       it> '> s mush to me (Denver); I> '> ll make/take a little
>       dodo (New Orleans); I should worry (almost every
>       city,   esp. Boston, New York)................................155
>
> DOUGLAS WILSON: 1913 gazipe (St. Louis slang of ca.
>       1913) is discussed in a 1913 newspaper article..............169
>
> BARRY POPIK: 1931 L.A. Times article > '> Underworld > "> lingo> ">
>       brought up-to-date> '> , by Ben Kendall...................................162
>
> GERALD COHEN (compiler; due credit is given): Material for
>       the study of jazz ax(e) > '> musical instrument> '> ......................181
> Index.......................................................................................192
>
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