Word: wagoneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modern highway follows the historic roads to Oregon all the way. The wagon trains of a century ago ranged over the valleys to get out of ruts and dust; in some places the Oregon Trail was 20 miles wide. But US 30, following the long curves on the north bank of the Platte River across Nebraska, climbing on its oiled roadbed to cross the Laramie Mountains of Wyoming, swinging north past the ghost towns and hot springs of Idaho, most nearly follows the route of the greatest mass migration in U. S. history: almost every mile...
...comment on your statement that many folk dance steps are as old as "all get-out." Actually they are older I think. I am unable to place "all get-out" accurately in time but I should not put it earlier than the covered-wagon period. The folk lore often expressed is probably thus: a wheel comes unstuck and papa has to fix it. "All get out" he calls and the family climb down with patient resignation...
...According to the best etymological authority TIME could muster, Reader Kennedy's shrewd guess comes as close as anybody's; but "all get-out" is older than covered-wagon days...
...absolute howl on the British Broadcasting Corp.'s Wednesday night Band Wagon is "Resident Comedian" Arthur Askey, who is a sort of British Joe Cook. Month or so ago Askey ("Big-Hearted Arthur") and his stooge, Stinker Murdoch, made a batter of mainly carbolic acid and turpentine for some cakes to discourage an unwanted guest. The batter was to be called Askitoff. In mixing it they professed to spill some on the carpet, whereupon the dirt magically disappeared. This was, Askey's cue to crack "Askitoff will take it off." Thereafter Askey began repeating the crack several times...
...delivery man who stopped in front of President Conant's house to deliver a birthday cake to Mrs. Conant returned to find his wagon missing. He gave vent to considerable chagrin and profanity...