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13 Berg, Goldwyn, pp. 140, 214–19, 238, 248–55, 380.
14 New York Times, 28 March 1993, p. H15.
15 The Economist, 2 October 1993, p. 108.
16 Berg, op. cit., p. 262.
17 Jowett, op. cit., p. 357.
18 Ibid.
16: The Pursuit of Pleasure: Sport and Play
1 Krout, Annals of American Sport, p. 11.
2 Fischer, Albion’s Seed, pp. 146–7.
3 Ibid., p. 6.
4 Ibid., p. 8.
5 Ibid., p. 16.
6 Flexner, Listening to America, pp. 504–6.
7 American Heritage, December 1967, p. 107.
8 Boorstin, The Americans: The Democratic Experience, p. 158.
9 Morison, The Oxford History of the American People, p. 88.
10 American Heritage Dictionary, 2nd edn., p. xxiii.
11 Fischer, op. cit., p. 737.
12 Dillard, American Talk, p. 65.
13 Adams, Western Words, p. 109.
14 Dillard, op. cit., pp. 65–71.
15 Holt, Phrase and Word Origins, p. 200.
16 Dillard, op. cit., p. 74.
17 Boorstin, op. cit., p. 73.
18 American Heritage, June 1972, p. 67.
19 Rae, The Road and the Car in American Life, p. 29.
20 Atwan, McQuade and Wright, Edsels, Luckies and Frigidaires, pp. 151–2.
21 Liebs, Main Street to Miracle Mile, pp. 138–142.
22 Allen, Only Yesterday, p. 68; and American Heritage, June 1972, p.68.
23 American Heritage, February/March 1983, pp. 24–7.
24 Dulles, America Learns to Play, p. 185.
25 Flexner, op. cit., p. 33.
26 Fischer, op. cit., p. 151.
27 American Heritage, June/July 1983, pp. 65–7.
28 Will, Men at Work, p. 102.
29 Voigt, American Baseball, p. 30.
30 Ibid, p. 135.
31 American Heritage, June/July 1983, p. 74.
32 Mencken, The American Language, suppl. 2., p. 737.
33 Krout, op. cit., p. 142.
34 Mencken, op. cit., p. 735; and Flexner, op. cit., p. 39.
35 Time, 23 September 1940.
36 P. Smith, A People’s History of the United States, vol. 6, p. 848.
37 Safire, On Language, p. 289.
38 Flexner, op. cit., pp. 48–9.
39 Ibid., pp. 261–80.
40 Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier, p. 99.
41 Holt, op. cit, p. 154.
42 Washington Post, 21 January 1991, p. D5.
43 New York Times, 16 February 1992, p. 1.
17: Of Bombs and Bunkum: Politics and War
1 Holt, Phrase and Word Origins, pp. 42 and 129.
2 Mencken, The American Language, suppl. 1, pp. 280–3.
3 Mencken, The American Language, 4th edn., p. 179.
4 Brogan, The Penguin History of the United States of America, p. 274.
5 Carver, A History of English in Its Own Words, p. 165.
6 McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, pp.111–15.
7 American Heritage, December 1975, p. 13.
8 Boorstin, Hidden History, p. 263.
9 Mee, The Genius of the People, p. 285.
10 P. Smith, A People’s History of the United States, vol. 3, p. 145.
11 Ibid., vol. 4, p. 126.
12 Brogan, op. cit., p. 312.
13 Flexner, I Hear America Talking, p. 161.
14 Allen, Only Yesterday, p. 104.
15 Johnson, Modern Times, p. 214.
16 American Heritage, December 1991.
17 Mencken, The American Language, suppl. 2, p. 590.
18 P. Smith, op. cit., vol. 3, pp. 608–9.
19 Flexner, op. cit., p. 405.
20 McPherson, op. cit., pp. 323–5.
21 Flexner, op. cit., p. 450.
22 American Heritage, February 1964, pp. 23–96.
23 Ciardi, A Browser’s Dictionary, p. 227.
24 Barfield, History in English Words, p. 76.
25 Holt, op. cit., p. 16.
26 Carver, op. cit., p. 252.
27 Flexner, Listening to America, p. 330.
28 Mencken, The American Language, 4th edn., p. 759.
29 Ibid., p. 508.
30 Lingeman, Don’t You Know There’s a War On?, pp. 219–21.
31 The Economist, 27 February 1993, p. 108.
32 New York Times, 2 February 1992, p. 17.
33 American Speech, Spring 1992, pp. 86–9.
18: Sex and Other Distractions
1 Life, 8 October 1951, pp. 61–2.
2 American Heritage, December 1983, p. 86.
3 Fischer, Albion’s Seed, p. 92.
4 Flexner, Listening to America, p. 449.
5 Fischer, op. cit., p. 87.
6 P. Smith, A People’s History of the United States, vol. 1, p. 69.
7 Hibbert, Redcoats and Rebels, p. 7.
8 Fischer, op. cit., p. 681.
9 Flexner, op. cit., p. 492.
10 Ciardi, Good Words to You, p. 42.
11 Cmiel, Democratic Eloquence, p. 117.
12 Garrett, At Home, p. 136.
13 P. Smith, op. cit., vol. 6, p. 264.
14 Tannahill, Sex in History, p. 336.