Word: dowden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year the Grand Old Party nominated James Gillespie Blaine for the Presidency (1884), a young printer by the name of T. B. Dowden turned up in the shop of the Cincinnati Gazette looking for work. The Gazette took him on and one morning at 2:30 o'clock, just before the Gazette went to press, Printer Dowden took from the news hook a piece of copy marked: "Must go in ten lines." Setting ten lines solid, he frantically tinkered the spacing, then appealed to the foreman: "My copy ends with Grand Old Party and I have two words left...
...letter signed "The Printer Himself" published in the New York Herald Tribune last week, oldtime Printer Dowden, now living in Los Angeles, gave the foregoing version of the origin of the Republican party's nickname. He concluded: "The audience roared but Blaine never smiled. That settled it right there and 'Gop' held its own for a long time. Then fussy proofreaders got to decorating it with periods and it finally evolved into...