[Ads-l] "Every man a tiger!"

[Laurence Horn]

That's all very well, but on a contrary note, there is this immortal Auden
haiku suggesting that maybe a tiger is not all that spiffy a thing to be:

Could any tiger

Drink martinis, smoke cigars,

And last as we do?

Happy Father's Day, TWIMC.

LH

On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 11:09 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Without the exclamation mark, this is the title of Tom Clancy's 1999 book
> about the Air Force in the 1991 Gulf War.
>
> The phrase was used as a morale-boosting PR slogan by various units during
> the Vietnam War. I hadn't seen it earlier.
>
> Until now:
>
> 1957 Louis Vittes & Endre Bohem _Monster from Green Hell_ (film): Every man
> a tiger."
>
> 1955 _1955 Michiganensian_ (Ann Arbor: U. of Mich.) LIX 191: Every Man a
> Tiger.
>
> 1953 _Air University Quarterly Review_ VI 109: Athletics: "Every Man a
> Tiger."
>
> 1950 Roy Olin Stratton _SACO - The Rice-Paddy Navy._ (Pleasantville, N.Y.:
> C. S. Palmer) 38 [ref. to WWII] :  It was in India that you first heard and
> tried to memorize the SACO song EVERY MAN A TIGER, sung to the tune of that
> grand old Navy song, THE ARMORED CRUISER SQUADRON.
>
> 1942 _Morning Chronicle_  (Manhattan, Kans.) (Jan. 10) 2: Manhattan Indians
> Down Chapman By 46-33 Score  'Every Man a Tiger.'
>
> 1928 _Columbus [O.] Dispatch_ (Nov. 9) 6: The game! the game! Every man a
> tiger for play....State boys must win the day!
>
> [1866 _Evening Bulletin_ (Providence, R.I.) (Oct. 24) 2 [ref. to 1842]: THE
> TIGER SPEECH.--In a very charming sketch of Mr. [John] Whipple in the
> _Post_ is some account of the famous "tiger speech," familiar to our elder
> readers. We well remember it.... Let 'em come, said the orator, and when
> they reach our doors, they shall find us, every man, a  _tiger in his den_.
> The effect was electric.]
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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