1920s Saying of the Day
“Water-proof”
Definition: a face that doesn’t require make-up.
January 2011
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Button Up Your Overcoat
Ruth Etting
“Button Up Your Overcoat,” sung by Ruth Etting (1896-1978), 1929.
1920s Saying of the Day
“Wife”
Definition: dorm roomate
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 hand
Grains of the golden sand—
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep—while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
1920s Saying of the Day
“Real McCoy”
Definition: a genuine item.
