Word: bedpost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Name a song by Lonnie Donegan besides Does your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight...
...Negro words. Others were invented (caucus, lynch-law, squatter), improvised (sockdolager, spondulix, absquatulate), and embellished (kerflop, kerthump, kersouse). The general exuberance also burst out in political oratory and tall talk ("Bust me wide open if I didn't bulge into the creek in the twinkling of a bedpost, I was so thunderin' savagerous"). It spilled over in the invincible optimism with which new towns called themselves cities, hotel was any flea-bitten tavern, and opera house meant any public hall, with or without a roof...
...weeks he had to be sedated. For a month, it seemed that Roger's brain had been all but destroyed. He developed an enormous appetite and opened his mouth for food whenever his lips were touched. He went blind, and fell on his face against the bedpost when...