January 2011
175 posts
1920s Saying of the Day
“Water-proof”
Definition: a face that doesn’t require make-up.
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1920s Saying of the Day
“Wife”
Definition: dorm roomate
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A Dream Within a Dream
- by Edgar Allan Poe
Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow: You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my...
1920s Saying of the Day
“Real McCoy”
Definition: a genuine item.
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1920s Saying of the Day
“Voot”
Definition: money.
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1920s Saying of the Day
“Rag-a-muffin”
Definition: a dirty or disheveled individual.
“If I’ve killed one man, I’ve killed two—
The vampire who said...”
– Sylvia Plath, excerpt from her poem “Daddy”.
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1920s Saying of the Day
“Pill”
Definition: 1.) a teacher, 2.) an unlikable person, 3.) cigarette
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1920s Saying of the Day
“Splifficated”
Definition: drunk.
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