Horatio Alger as a verb? [was: earlier Boom!]

[Victor Steinbok]

No. Typo--should have been "our". As with most scanned news stories, I
had to retype it and it's not the most efficient way of transferring
content.

     VS-)

On 12/29/2011 10:05 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> "he was out Horatio Alger" -- "he was outing Horatio Alger?
>
> (1)  "he was outdoing Horatio Alger" -- the home-town boy was
> exceeding all reasonable expectations?
> or --
> (2)  "he was outing Horatio Alger" -- Horatio Alger was a gay??
>
> But upon examination of the image, I find something much less
> exciting -- "he was OUR Horatio Alger".
>
> Joel
>
> At 12/29/2011 02:34 AM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>>  From a 1994 bio of Newt Gingrich:
>>
>> http://goo.gl/IfBli
>> Ellensburg Daily Record - Nov 28, 1994
>> Jill Lawrence (AP). The Rise of the Backbencher. p. 5/2-3
>>> "It shocked the town because he was out Horatio Alger. We were so
>>> proud," said Floyd Hoskins, a retired West Georgia history professor
>>> who was Gingrich's close friend and office-mate. The general reaction,
>>> he said, was "You mean I helped buy the furniture for their house and
>>> now he's throwing her out? A lot of people said, 'Boom, we don't like
>>> Newt anymore.'"

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