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Archive for August, 2006

Comic Strips from the 1930s

Dick TracyHere are six Old Comic Strips to read and enjoy at your leisure. Each has a series of at least 15 to 20 strips. I absolutely love reading old comic strips because they offer an excellent insight into what was considered whacky fun etc. back in the old days. Definitely a different flavor from our modern offerings. Krazy Kat, Superman, Dick Tracy, Buck Rogers, Popeye, and Little Orphan Annie.

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American Slang in the early 1900s

The slang of American youth of the 1920s was female-oriented, while 1930s slang leaned toward the male. Within the body of slang was a wide assortment for girls, including a baby, bag (unattractive), beetle, belle, bim or bimbo, blimp (loose), breigh, broad, buff, butter and egg fly (popular), buttermilk (unattractive), calico, canary, choice bit of calico (attractive), clinging vine (delicate), crock (unattractive), dame, darb (popular), doll, extra (a girl no one wants to date), fem, filly, flame, flirt, frail, fuss (frequent companion) Read More on American Slang >

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