Word: gop
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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Next morning on the front page of the Gazette appeared this sentence: "The Hon. James G. Blaine will address the meeting on 'The Achievements of the Gop...
...meeting that night the Man from Maine was concluding a two-hour Republican harangue when a voice cried from the gallery: "Why don't you tell us something about the 'Gop' and what...
Retorted Speaker Blaine: "Why, my friend, I've been talking about the 'Gop' all evening. The word 'Gop' contains the initial letters of the Grand Old Party and that is its official and abbreviated form...
...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...