skillet blond (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

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_Syracuse [NY] Journal_ 13 Mar 1917 p 12 col 5

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 10:34 AM
> To: 'American Dialect Society'
> Subject: skillet blond (UNCLASSIFIED)
>
> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
> Caveats: NONE
>
> A new one on me.
>
> "According to John McGraw, Donaldson would be worth $50,000 to a major
> league club If he wasn't a "skillet-blond." "
>
> John Donaldson was a very good baseball pitcher who was on the wrong
> side of the color line during the WWI era.
>
> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
> Caveats: NONE
>


Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

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