Word: elysian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cavalry borrowed the name. Says Webster: " 'Fiddler's Green' is the imagined Elysian field of sailors and vagabond craftsmen, where credit is good and there is always a lass, a glass, and a song...
...Elysian Field. The blissfully named Elysian Park Street Railway Co. was typical. Organized to sell lots in then suburban Elysian Park, the company had one horse-drawn car. Once the only driver said: "The owners furnished the horse and I the feed. My pay was $4 a week and all I took in ... about 10? a day. I had a banjo and was learning to play. I would start from one end of the line and busy myself with my banjo. The horse stopped whenever he found good grazing...
...presidential candidate, but you are just a Childe Harolde to me. Just how old does one get in thirty-eight years, anyway? At the risk of being an un-American, defeatist influence, I don't want faith restored to me. You just stay over in the Elysian fields where you belong, and let me wallow my poor benighted way through Hell. Yours very cordially, Pro Bono Publico...