Word: jitneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Most of my popular slang phrases and sayings originated in San Francisco. The once over, ' 23,' run out powder, hire a hall, jitney, flivver, Larry turn the crank, get your goat, where d'ye get that stuff, and hundreds of others came from there...
There has been these last few months a barely discernible turn of the tide. Romeyne Park Benjamin, The Jitney Players (mostly college graduates), Oliver Harriman (Princeton) have cast their lots with the actors. Possibly none of them will succeed John Barrymore; yet their example in forcing the national stage door against the dead weight of convention is invaluable. Young men of less position but with more temperament may be aroused to follow their inclinations through the door thus opened...
...curious outgrowth of the strolling player idea has cropped up in the Ford Truck tour of New England by the Jitney Players. Headed by Bushnell Cheney, youthful Yale graduate, and his wife, Alice Keating, the group will present Creatures of Impulse, by W. S. Gilbert, and James Branch Cabell's The Jewel Merchants to New England communities throughout the summer. Their stage consists of automatic contrivances built on the body of two Ford trucks. Their season opened at Madison, Conn., July...