Book on Vietnam War Slang

Stephen Goranson goranson at DUKE.EDU
Wed Aug 13 13:35:54 UTC 2014


Maybe in
Masques : 
all new works of horror and the supernatural /
J N Williamson
1984 1st ed.
English Book Book : Fiction 306 p. ; 22 cm.
Baltimore : Maclay, ; ISBN: 0940776189 9780940776180

"Nightcrawlers" by Robert R. McCammon
available online:
http://www.robertmccammon.com/fiction/nightcrawlers.html


Stephen Goranson
http://people.duke.edu/~goranson/


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Dalzell cites Robert R. McCammon who is a notable horror writer. He
may have invented the "Howdy Doody" chemical agent for one of his
stories.

Garson

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Hugo <hugovk at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Searching Google Books, the same or shorter definition of Howdy Doody
> appears in:
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>  * The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
> (2007) by Terry Victor, Tom Dalzell
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>  * The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional
> English (2008) edited by Tom Dalzell
>
> But I found no other references.
>
> Hugo
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