Word: fol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christian minstrelsy." Old Parr, Campbell and Robinson explain, was the grand old man of Shropshire who finally trembled into his grave at the age of 152 (1483-1635). Parr and wallstrait are puns ("par" and "Wall Street") on the rise & fall of stockmarket values. The immense polysyllable that fol lows the word "fall" is the voice of God's wrath over the fall of man, the crash of Finnegan from the ladder, and the thunder clap that inaugurates a new period of history...
...must to all falfacious fol-derol, death came last night to the illtimed Time report of the elimination of "Harvard's mid-morning snacks of chocolate milk and toast," due to the employment problem...
...union men we came to Yale-fol...
Long before last week the Treasury bond campaign had become one of the liveliest phenomena of the American scene. Bonds were sold by tomfoolery, parades, fanfare, gags, spectacles, fol de rol-and everywhere. Breathed no man alive in the 48 States, excepting only (possibly) hermits, night watchmen and astronomers, who was not exposed almost daily to lures, enchantments, traps, and high-pressure selling designed to milk his pocketbook of every possible cent for the war effort. Men might groan and women resist, but on the street, in railroad stations, in shops and stores and factories and offices, in restaurants, cafes...
hoodle dang fol de dydle hoodle dang fol...