"kippie" - Buster Keaton

[Wilson Gray]

Isn't "keep school" an obsolete turn of phrase whose meaning has now
been forgotten, but may have meant something like "keep (in) order"?

-Wilson

On 1/10/07, Nathan Bierma <nbierm65 at calvin.edu> wrote:
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> Someone asked me about "kippie" and "school kept" in these Buster Keaton quotes
> and I was baffled; I checked some sources and then even suspected a
> mis-transcription. What's going on?
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> "And I go 'round all the time dolled up in kippie clothes-wear everything but
> a corset ..."
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> "It got so that I didn't care if school kept or not."
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> - Buster Keaton
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> Nathan Bierma
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