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Terms Which Have Disappeared
I think this one is "chiefly British" and not North American. The only places I have read or heard it is in British TV or books. The inference I drew from the context was that the subject was some sort of "low" person whose behavior was exactly the unsatisfactory sort that the speaker expected...- KILO NOVEMBER
- Post #797
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
Here are two now-extinct terms from social dancing: "full dance card", "taxi dancer".- KILO NOVEMBER
- Post #784
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
I walked carefully around that one. I wanted to say something along those lines, but I didn't have the nerve. You've got stones, brother.- KILO NOVEMBER
- Post #781
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
It's specifically a Yiddish word. Yiddish is a Germanic dialect spoken widely in earlier times by the Jews of eastern European (Ashkenazim) origin. Jews of other backgrounds (e.g., Sephardim, Mizrahim) wouldn't know bupkis about Yiddish.- KILO NOVEMBER
- Post #762
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
"Jake", as in "That's Jake with me." or "Everything's Jake!"- KILO NOVEMBER
- Post #711
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Maternal Dissaproval
I nominate our nation's capital in July and August as a straw-only locale.- KILO NOVEMBER
- Post #101
- Forum: Hats
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Dressing appropriately for The Job Interview?
I have a similar background and am of a similar age. You and I may be running into the same issue, age discrimination. If you are well-qualified, and seem to hit it off well with the interviewers (been there, done that), how you dress is not likely to be your problem. It's quite possible that...- KILO NOVEMBER
- Post #8
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
I've just been watching "The Thin Man" (1934) for the umpteenth time. In one scene, a "kept woman" is explaining the presence in her apartment of a man unknown to her "keeper", for lack of a better term. She says, "Oh, he's just a man I used to know. I haven't seen him in years. I didn't want...- KILO NOVEMBER
- Post #693
- Forum: The Golden Era
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A Question About Small Cigars
The problem with small cigars is not the brand, it's the physics and chemistry of combustion. When you draw a mouthful of smoke, the air is drawn through the burning surface at a speed which is related to the force exerted by the draw (relatively fixed, unless you consciously draw a good deal...- KILO NOVEMBER
- Post #8
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
"... big steel man from Pittsburg." When my ancestors first came to the US, they settled in western Pennsylvania. I was the first to leave the area. The city was named after a fort situated at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers. Once the British/Americans took the fort...- KILO NOVEMBER
- Post #643
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
How many years has it been since a man "made a pass" at a woman?- KILO NOVEMBER
- Post #636
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
Here are two more terms which I think have disappeared in the past 30 to 40 years: telex, teletype- KILO NOVEMBER
- Post #633
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
police (verb) - to clean and keep clean (a camp, post, etc.)- KILO NOVEMBER
- Post #617
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
Combined with the passing of "The Greatest Generation", the lapse of conscription in the United States, has lead to a decline in many terms men learned while in uniform and carried into civilian life. How about a few? Here's one to start: G.I. (verb) - To clean (barracks, for example)...- KILO NOVEMBER
- Post #608
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
Ditto for my mother, 1924-2013.- KILO NOVEMBER
- Post #604
- Forum: The Golden Era
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New Bonnie and Clyde mini series on the History Channel
I somehow got two versions of the photos uploaded, but, QED. As for the numerous accounts, how many of these originated in newspaper accounts? While their careers were after the hey day of "yellow journalism", accounts of attractive villains certainly sold more papers than accounts of plain...- KILO NOVEMBER
- Post #45
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Proper Barber Shop
For a number of years I lived in a town adjacent to Dulles Airport. Even after I moved closer to Washington, I would still return to the barber shop in my former town. It had twelve chairs. Most of the barbers were from West Virginia or deep in the Shenandoah Valley, judging by their speech...- KILO NOVEMBER
- Post #17
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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New Bonnie and Clyde mini series on the History Channel
One glance at the commercials, with the pretty-boy actor as Clyde Barrow and the actress playing Bonnie Parker looking like a photo ad on a cosmetic counter in a department store, told me that I would skip this, no, give this a wide berth. The actual subject were, well, to call them "plain"...- KILO NOVEMBER
- Post #40
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
Expressions originating in railroading (and with the coal once used to power it) are also disappearing. "Klinker" is one that doesn't have much currency now. How many of you have a "coal chute"? You can add "stoker", "brakeman", and "conductor" (not the orchestral kind) to the list. How many...- KILO NOVEMBER
- Post #594
- Forum: The Golden Era
