17 The last two were reported by Ethel M. Head, Better Homes and Gardens, Dec., 1938.
18 Stock Grower and Farmer, June 21, 1890, quoted by the DAE.
19 The last three are credited to Barney Oldfield, of the Lincoln (Neb.) Journal and Star, by American Speech, Oct., 1941, p. 207.
1 They are in his The Mighty Medicine; New York, 1929. Comstockery is said to have been contributed to American by George Bernard Shaw. In 1905 the New York Public Library, in response to the uproar over his play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, put his Man and Superman on its reserved list. Shaw thereupon cabled a statement to the New York Times, Sept. 1, 1905, in which he said: “Comstockery is the world’s standing joke at the expense of the United States. Europe likes to hear of such things. It confirms the deep-seated conviction of the Old World that America is a provincial place, a second-rate town civilization, after all.” Comstockery, of course, was derived from the name of Anthony Comstock (1844–1915), chief smeller for the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice from 1873 until his death.
2 From an advertisement for the sale of Levishaw Manor, Norfolk, in the London Observer, May 31, 1936: “Four receptions, 8 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms. Mains electricity. Garage for 4 cars. Small farmery. Cottage, Grass tennis court.” I am indebted here to the collectanea of the late F. H. Tyson, of Hong Kong.
3 Welfare Work for L.P.T.B. Men, London Times, June 17, 1938: “The canteen and servery have been so designed that each girl can serve eight lunches a minute.”
4 American Speech, Dec., 1936, p. 374.
5 New Evidence on Americanisms, American Speech, Feb., 1942, p. 65. The only example given is from the Stock Grower and Farmer, April 12, 1890.
6 An early effort to derive it from the Turkish has come to nothing. See Cafeteria, by Charles E. Edgerton, American Speech, Jan., 1927, pp. 214–15, and Cafeteria — a Correction, by the same, April, 1927, p. 331.
7 Diccionario Provincial Cuasi Razonado de Voces i Frases Cubanas, by Esteban Pichardo y Tapia; third ed.; Havana, 1862. The first edition of this work was published at Matanzas in 1836, and there was a second at Havana in 1849.
1 Estudios Lexicográficos: La Anarquía del Lenguaje en la America Española, by Dario Rubio; two vols.; City of Mexico, 1925.
2 Cafeteria, American Speech, Oct., 1927, p. 37. Nearly a year before this, in The Pronunciation of Cafeteria, American Speech, Nov., 1926, p. 114, E. C. Hills reported finding the word in two Spanish dictionaries, and surmised that it was a Cubanism, but he did not run down the evidence unearthed by Barry.
3 Diccionario General de Americanismos, by Francisco J. Santamaria; City of Mexico, 1942, Vol. I, p. 264.
4 Chicago Tribune, June 28, 1898, quoted by the DAE. Mr. W. K. Hale, of Montreal, tells me that he has a definite recollection of a cafeteria in Chicago during the Summer of 1893. His memory, of course, may err as to the spelling.
1 Private communication, Oct. 18, 1939.
2 Basketeria and the Meaning of the Suffix -teria, American Speech, June, 1930, pp. 417 and 418.
1 Reported from Louisville, 1936, by Mr. Verne Salyards, of New Albany, Ind., and from Indianapolis, 1937, by Mr. P. H. Long.
2 In Chicago. American Speech, April, 1940, p. 131.
3 In the Baker Hotel, Dallas, Texas.
4 Reported by the Indianapolis Star, Aug. 18, 1940, to have opened in New York. “Camera fans may use its dark rooms and equipment upon the payment of a small fee. The chemicals are on the house. Print paper may be bought in quantities as small as one sheet.”
5 Found by a correspondent in Randolph street, near Dearborn, Chicago, 1941.
6 New Yorker, Dec. 16, 1939. “It is advertised as the world’s first self-service night club and is located over the Rialto Theatre on Times square.”
7 Reported from Benton Lake, Minn., in American Speech, April, 1933, p. 80.
8 Found by a correspondent in Los Angeles.
9 The last two were reported from Fort Worth, Texas, by Miss M. L. Hudson, 1937.
10 Reported from San Francisco by Ethel S. Mitchell in American Speech, Feb., 1932, p. 233.
11 Reported from Lincoln, Neb., in American Speech, April, 1931, p. 304.
12 Reported from the Bowery, New York, in American Speech, Dec., 1930, p. 159.
13 Found at 5216 Wilshire boulevard, Los Angeles, by Victor T. Reno, 1944.
14 Reported from New Haven, Conn., by Manuel Prenner in American Speech, June, 1930, p. 438.
15 Reported from North Carolina by George W. Snyder of Charlotte, April 20, 1939.
16 All three reported by C. N. Nelson in American Speech, Dec., 1929, p. 177.
17 Farmateria and cleaniteria were reported from Toronto and spaghetteria from New York City in American Speech, April, 1929, p. 333.
18 Reported from a Philadelphia suburb by M. A. Shaaber in American Speech, Oct., 1927, p. 67.
19 Reported from Santa Ana, Calif., by E. C. Hills in American Speech, Jan., 1926, p. 246.
20 His early publications on the subject were New Words in California, Modern Language Notes, March, 1923; and Irradiation of Certain Suffixes, American Speech, Oct., 1925. They were followed by The Pronunciation of Cafeteria, already cited. In the last-named paper he showed that the Spanish pronunciation of the word, with the accent on the penultimate, was still heard in California in 1925. In April, 1928, p. 352, American Speech reported that the movie magazine, Picture Play, was giving it an accent and making it cafeteria, apparently on the theory that it was related to the French café.
1 Fourteenth Edition, Vol. IV; New York, 1929.
2 A New Boss Takes Los Angeles, by Rena M. Vale, March, pp. 299 ff.
3 I am indebted here to Mrs. Isaac Goldberg of Boston.
4 Title of an article by Robert Littell, Today, June 6, 1936.
5 Survey Midmonthly, Oct., 1940: “The unique Welles Parentorium, parent guidance center of the National Hospital for Speech Disorders, New York, has a new director.”
6 For the last three I am indebted to More Notes on Neo-Suffixes, by Manuel Prenner, American Speech, Feb., 1943, p. 71.
1 Notes, by Louise Pound, American Speech, Oct., 1936, p. 274.
2 The designation of a movie-theatre in Uniontown, Ala. I am indebted here to Mr. Sigmund Sameth of New York: private communication (with a photograph of the marquee), July 1, 1939.
3 A building equipped with loudspeakers. Reported in American Speech, Oct., 1939, p. 236, to have been coined by McClure and Walker, Kearney, Neb., architects.
4 Reported as a euphemism for grease-pit by Robert W. Meader in the Classical Outlook, Feb., 1942, p. 46, noted in American Speech, Dec., 1942, p. 284.
5 Profile of George Robert Vincent, New Yorker, May 17, 1941.
6 The Marine Studios Oceanarium at Marineland, Fla., was reported by the Baltimore Sun, Dec. 10, 1939.
7 What Everyone Should Know About Abortion, by Jane Ward, American Mercury, Aug., 1941, p. 196.
8 I am indebted here to Mr. Lewis Bertrand of the Language Service Center, New York.
9 American Speech, Dec., 1942, p. 284.
10 At his death on Jan. 11, 1931 the Associated Press reported, on the authority of his son, that he regarded this invention as one of the three greatest achievements of his life. See American Speech, Feb., 1933, p. 74.
11 Odditorium — Believe It or Not, American Speech, Dec., 1940, p. 442.
12 Vol. IV, p. 421.
13 The NED does not list opificium, but it traces opifice, in the sense of a fabric, a work, to 1616, and opificer, in the sense of a fabricator, to 1548.
1 The Earliest Motorcade, by W. L. Werner, American Speech, June, 1932, p. 388.
2 March, 1925, p. 189. I take this from Motorcade, by Robert Withington, American Speech, April, 1931, p. 313.
3 Motorcade, Aug., 1930, pp. 495 and 496. It was used in a bulletin of the extension division of the university announcing that two motorcades would set out from Chapel Hill on June 7, 1930 to carry the enlightenment to Tar Heel share-croppers.
1 Motorcade and to demagogue, American Speech, Dec., 1930, p. 155.
2 Cavalcade’s Daughters, Motorcade and Aerocade, American Speech, April, 1931, p. 254.
3 Garth Cate, June 29, 1931.
4 I take this from Werner’s article, just cited.
5 In an Associated Press dispatch from Chicago, May 9, 1931. Reported in Autocade, by Atcheson L. Hench, American Speech, Aug. 1931, pp. 463–64.
6 The Living Language, by Dwight L. Bolinger, Words, April, 1940, 54. Bolinger reported it occurring in Chesterfield cigarette advertisements, Oct., 1939.
7 Washington Times-Herald, Jan. 18, 1941, reported in Free Wheeling, American Speech, April, 1941, p. 158.
8 Gardens, Houses and People (Baltimore), Jan., 1944, p. 8. Apparently a display of war equipment.
9 The Talk of the Town, New Yorker, June 24, 1939. I find among my notes a newspaper clipping reprinting an editorial from Life, in which aerocade is offered as a novelty, along with two alternatives avicade and aircade. Unhappily, I have been unable to determine the date of this editorial, but it seems to have been printed before Life became a picture paper.
1 Apple-ade appeared in an advertisement of the British Ministry of Food, London Daily Express, Dec. 3, 1940. The advertisement said: “Never waste the peel and cores of your apples. Boil them in a little water, and you’ll have a delicious and very health-giving drink.”
2 American Speech, Oct., 1933, p. 76.
3 The English Language: New York, 1912, p. 93.
4 Vogue Affixes in Present-Day Word-Coinage, Vol. V, Part I, 1918, pp. 6 and 7.
5 In one column of Putnam’s Monthly, Dec., 1854, p. 624, I find waiterdom and Cuffeydom. On Feb. 2, 1887, as the NED notes, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat used blizzardom.
6 Three Hard-Worked Suffixes, American Speech, Feb., 1927, pp. 244–46.
1 The Allegedly Dead Suffix -dom in Modern English, Publications of the Modern Language Association, March, 1941, pp. 280–306. The other authorities, four in number, are named and quoted, pp. 280 and 281, along with eight dissenters.
2 Women’s Wear (New York), 1938, quoted in the Baltimore Evening Sun (editorial page), Oct. 6.
1 First used c. 1880 to designate a Southern Negro moving northward; revived by the Topeka Daily Capital, Nov. 25, 1938, to designate a fugitive from the Dust Bowl. See The Revival of Exoduster, by Dwight L. Bolinger, American Speech, Dec., 1941, pp. 317–18.
2 Cf. Better Houses For Budgeteers, by Royal Barry Wills; New York, 1941.
3 Sloganeer was used by President F. D. Roosevelt in a speech at Columbus, O., Aug. 20, 1932. It was apparently invented by Richard Connell, who used it in the titles of three short stories contributed to the Saturday Evening Post, 1921–21. See The Invention of Sloganeer, Word Study, Jan., 1933, p. 6.
1 Feb. 27, 1939, p. 9. Quoted in American Speech, April, 1940, p. 217.
2 See the obituary of Hand, who died on Nov. 2, 1937, in the Editor and Publisher, Nov. 6.
3 New Yorker, Aug. 21, 1937, p. 11.
1 Listed in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles; Part I: Definitions of Titles, issued by the United States Employment Office; Washington, 1939, p. 987.
2 New Yorker, Nov. 11, 1939: “The girls employed to annoy visitors to some kind of Chamber of Commerce festival in Southern California will be called welcomettes.”
3 Realtyettes to Instal, Portland Oregonian, April 16, 1944. I am indebted here to Mr. Leo C. Dean of Portland.
4 American Speech, Feb., 1943, p. 42.
5 Now War Adds Censorettes, Life, Aug. 18, 1941.
6 Private communication, Dec. 2, 1939.
1 See AL4, p. 549.
2 A member of a sect of Quakers, traced by the DAE to 1832, and still in use.
3 Defined by Alva Johnston in Public Relations, III, New Yorker, Sept. 2, 1944, p. 27, as “a technical tabloid term meaning a member of the human race.”
4 Apparently an Americanism, traced by the DAE to 1889, a year before its first recorded appearance in England.
5 Coined by John B. Watson in 1913.
6 What’s a Receptionist?, New York Times, Oct. 5, 1924, indicated that the term was then a novelty. It was first used by photographers, but the doctors and dentists soon borrowed it, and now it is in very wide use.
7 I am indebted to Mr. Paul Palmer for a Doggist’s Code, issued by a dog dealer named Will Judy.
8 The last two are from an article by John Chamberlain in the New Republic, quoted by the Baltimore Evening Sun (editorial page), June 21, 1938. No doubt Mr. Chamberlain used them sportively.
9 Girls with Ideals Have Hard Sledding When Elders Are Lax, by Doris Blake, Chicago Tribune, Feb. 18, 1926, p. 28.
10 Reported by the Engineering News-Record, April 21, 1927.
11 Advertisement of Alcide Felix Cormier in the New York Herald Tribune, June 12, 1941. I am indebted here to Mr. John C. Sullivan of New York.
12 Advertisement of the Shoreham Hotel, Washington, June, 1938: “The Country’s Outstanding Mentalist. Prince Mogul, the Shoreham Seer, will answer your questions with the aid of his crystal. Shoreham Cocktail Lounge.”
13 Used by the Editor and Publisher Aug. 19, 1944, p. 26, in the heading on a notice of the death of “Joseph Cookman, chief editorial writer of the New York Post.”
14 New Words For Old, Baltimore Evening Sun (editorial page), July 3, 1940.
15 The invention of this new word for an inventor of new words was ascribed to Dr. Charles E. Funk by the New Yorker, April 3, 1937, p. 15.
16 From a letter in the Atlantic Monthly by E. C. Ailing, March, 1932, p. 429.
1 Reported from Washington, D. C., by J. Foster Hagan in American Speech, March, 1927, P: 293.
2 Three Hard-Worked Suffixes, American Speech, Feb., 1927, p. 245.
3 The title of a book by Dr. W. S. Sadler, a psychiatrist; New York, 1925. The sub-title is “Blood Pressure and Nerves.” Dr. Louise Pound, in the paper lately cited, traces Americanitis to 1915.
4 Mr. Hartford Beaumont of New York tells me that this term was in wide use in the Philippines before the late unpleasantness. It was employed to designate the mental state of an American who had “missed too many boats” for home.
5 National Liquor Review, July, 1943, p. 4. I am indebted here to Mr. Fred Hamann.
6 The NED traces it to 1844.
7 John o’ London’s Weekly, March 18, 1938.
1 I am indebted here to Mr. Alan F. Blair, of Pasadena, Calif.
2 For the last seven I am indebted to Among the New Words, by Dwight L. Bolinger, American Speech, Dec., 1941, p. 306.
3 I find the euphemistic incarceree in an article by a lady convict in Viewpoint, published by the prisoners in the New Jersey State Prison, Trenton, June-July, 1944, p. 42.
4 Jamboree Has Two Children, by Atcheson L. Hench, American Speech, April, 1937, p. 99. A yamboree was held at Gilmer, Texas, in Oct., 1935.
5 Reported from Nebraska in American Speech, Oct., 1940, p. 261.
6 It was used in the Baltimore Sun, May 25, 1935, by Folger McKinsey (the Bentztown Bard).
7 Beateree, American Speech, Oct., 1942, p. 181. The DAE traces the term to 1861. It apparently dropped out of use in the early 80s.
8 Biographee is in Federal Trade Commission: Complaint against Julius C. Schwartz et al; Docket No. 5108, Dec. 29, 1943. The history of -ee is recounted in The Fate of French -é in English, by C. T. Onions, S.P.E. Tract No. LXI, 1943.
9 Among the New Words, American Speech, April, 1941, p. 144.
10 Greenbackism is traced by the DAE to 1882, populism to 1893, know-nothingism to 1854, bossism to 1881, hoodlumism to 1872, and rowdyism to 1842.
11 Teacherage, by Hugh Sebastien, American Speech, Oct., 1936, p. 271.
12 The street lighting engineer of Los Angeles in the Record of that city, date undetermined: “I have reported the light outage at Ninth and Los Angeles streets.” I am indebted here to Mr. Charles J. Lovell.
1 Office advertisement in the Oklahoma City Times, Oct. 27, 1924: “These
want-ads reach 114,000 subscribers daily, 84,000 on Sunday. You cannot find a greater Oklahoma newspaper readerage.” I am indebted here to Monsignor J. B. Dudek.
2 Coverage means the extent of a newspaper’s treatment of a matter of news. I first heard it in Chattanooga, Tenn., in 1926. It has since come into wide use among newspaper men.
3 Seattle Times, Feb. 16, 1937: “Mrs. Harry Fargo Ostrander, well-known charitarian and society leader, today was named president of the Seattle Visiting Nurse Service.”
4 In 1938 the Bureau of Mines, Department of the Interior, issued a publication called Grindability of Alabama Coals. The NED traces the adjective grindable to 1652, but does not list grindability, nor does it appear in the NED Supplement, 1933.
5 The Detroit News: “Congress does not propose to use its power to enlarge the buyability of the dollar.” Quoted in the Baltimore Evening Sun (editorial page), July 10, 1939.
6 The NED traces cleanable in English use to 1882, but does not list cleanability. I am indebted here to Mr. Fred Hamann, who reports cleanability in an advertisement of the Holyoke Card and Paper Company, Springfield, Mass., Paper Progress, Aug., 1943.
7 Canadian Stage, 1936, p. 1: “Miniature camera fans have coined a new word.” I am again indebted here to Mr. Hamann.
8 Reported by American Speech, Feb., 1934, p. 76.
9 Radiorator (radio and orator) was used by Time in 1936, but has been abandoned. I am indebted here to Mr. Winslow Ames, of New London, Conn.
10 Hoovercrat appeared in 1928, when many Southern Democrats, unable to tolerate the introduction of the Pope into the White House, voted for the Republican Hoover and against the candidate of their own party, Alfred E. Smith. According to the Editor and Publisher, Aug. 7, 1940, Willkiecrat was coined by James L. Verhoeff, assistant city editor of the Arkansas Democrat of Little Rock, in 1940, and used for the first time in a headline.
11 American Speech, Feb., 1937, p. 30.
1 I am indebted here to Mr. Don King, endurance shows editor of the Billboard, and to Mr. Hal J. Ross of St. Louis. From the Billboard, Aug. 18, 1934, p. 26: “Washington, Aug. 11. — The Ray C. Alvis walkathon, which started in the Washington Auditorium on July 30 with 73 couples, is down to 30 couples and four solos at the 100-hour mark.”
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