Word: peps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pep began as a literary hoax. The Berliner Tageblatt in 1924 received and printed a series of satiric poems signed by one J. L. Wetcheek, "famed" U. S. poet, translated into German by Lion (Power) Feuchtwanger. Soon, however, someone discovered that Wetcheek was unknown to U. S. Kultur, that wet-cheek, moreover, was a literal translation of Feuchtwanger. Hoaxes will out. Said Author Feucht wanger, dehoaxed: "If these poems, to some extent, are an attempt to put Babbitt into lyrics, I certainly do not claim to be representative of America, a country I do not know. I wanted...
...look at the case another way, to get the Harvard angle on the situation, consider what the entertainment of a jolly get together of business men will do for Memorial Hall. Think a moment, after all isn't that just what it needs--more pep! Not much doing in Mem Hall these days, and it has a tendency to get behind the times and collect dust. It needs to hear a little informal singing, not just symphony concerts, but the sort of thing that will want to make those old portraits speak up and call each other by their first...
...thing I like most about college boys and girls is their pep, which seems perfectly endless. The older generation,--mind you, I'm not including myself,--ought to feel sorry for all that they're losing...
From Premises One and Two arose the inescapable conclusion?which the Prince indicated but forebore to draw?that work could be found for Britain's unemployed if only Britain's employers would pep up their salesmen...
Baird Leonard's "Mrs. Pep's Diary" was discontinued...