Windy City (1856 for Green Bay, WI)

[Laurence Horn]

At 6:14 PM -0400 7/20/07, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>  >Newspaperarchive is getting better by the day.  Still painful, but  getting
>better.
>...
>NewspaperArchive crashed on me several times in the last  hour...Newsbank
>still hasn't updated its content list for America's Historical  Newspapers. I
>wrote to them again about the Series 4 and Series 5 releases.
>...
>..
>This NewspaperArchive "windy city" shows that the sarcastic "wind" usage  had
>been applied at a very early date.
>...
>21 June 1856, Menasha (WI) Advocate, pg. 3, col. 1:
>The Green Bay _Advocate_ comes this week, containing three long columns of
>gas and wind expended in that windy city on Monday last in honor of STEVE
>HOTALING'S arrival there with his steam barge from Menasha, through the Neenah
>channel.
>
Is "that windy city" used descriptively really assimilable to "the
Windy City" (regardless of which city is denoted thereby?  I'm not
sure I'd classify this under "Windy City" (for Green Bay).  Now,
"Titletown, U.S.A.", that's a name (but 1856 would be a century too
early for that one).

LH

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