Word: fors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME (Nov. 27, p. 56) refers to a coin-operated phonograph as a "juke box." Since Gainesville is - if not the birthplace - at least the incubator and nursery for the term, I feel a more-or-less fatherly interest in it and ask that you conform to our usage in...
My efforts to point out reasons for our usage would be puny compared to Will McGuire's excellent "A Note on Jook," so I will simply enclose a copy of his work for your information. This is taken from the spring 1938 edition of The Florida Review, published at...
¶ Says Authority McGuire: "jook as noun means a rather ordinary roadhouse outside the city limits . . . where beer is for sale, and where there is a coin phonograph, or nickelodeon, and space for dancing." - ED.
Upstairs and downstairs and into the First Lady's chamber went two workmen last week, lugging shiny green holly wreaths, one for each window of the White House. Downstairs all was Christmas rush. Bookkeeper Henry Nesbitt listed stacks of early gifts; Housekeeper Mrs. Nesbitt thumbed over the State linen...
In the mailroom clerks stiffened their sinews to grapple with the hundreds of thousands of cards and gifts-from fruitcake and ship models to luggage and buck deer-that stack up every year, the week before Christmas. Secret Service men could infinitesimally relax: Christmastime is a slow season for cranks...