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Terms Which Have Disappeared

Stearmen

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I just remember a funny story. A few years ago, I was at the motorcycle shop, when the young woman behind the counter, mentioned to a co worker why she was so tired, she said, "I was playing Lazar Tag last night," two of us older guys, at the same time said, is that what they call it these days?
 

KILO NOVEMBER

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I've never seen the movie, so I'm unfamiliar with the song.
Here's a YouTube link to "We're in the Money". It's got a catchy tune, beautiful young women in not much costume, a great set, and a funny-looking guy in a fedora I wouldn't mind owning!

Now, the "Petting in the Park" is a real corn-ball number, but for completeness' sake, there's a link to that one, too.

(Dick Powell's hat is one I'd REALLY like to have!)
 

vitanola

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Here's a YouTube link to "We're in the Money". It's got a catchy tune, beautiful young women in not much costume, a great set, and a funny-looking guy in a fedora I wouldn't mind owning!

Now, the "Petting in the Park" is a real corn-ball number, but for completeness' sake, there's a link to that one, too.

(Dick Powell's hat is one I'd REALLY like to have!)

"Forgotten Man", another term which has fallen into desuetude.

Probably the greatest number from "Golddiggers of 1933" is the finale:

[video=youtube;O0zWZ5ku0hE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0zWZ5ku0hE&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/video]
 

LizzieMaine

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We ran that film last summer as part of our 90th Anniversary Series. People were thunderstruck by the "Forgotten Man" number -- after eighty minutes of foo-foo frippery, it was like being hit in the head with a jackhammer.

The "Forgotten Man" himself has been forgotten. Well, not forgotten, just ignored.
 

Stanley Doble

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In My Man Godfrey (1936) William Powell gets a job with the wealthy and eccentric Bullock family after they pick him up at the town dump. They were looking for a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt.

There was another term current in the depression and for some time after, "the little man" or "the little people" meaning ordinary people without wealth, fame, power or influence.

Similar terms were "the other half" from a book about the poor called "How The Other Half Lives" and "one third of a nation" from a speech by Roosevelt in which he said one third of Americans were ill fed, ill clothed and ill housed. Photographer "Weegee" said his nickname around the news rooms was "one third of a nation".
 
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Here's a YouTube link to "We're in the Money"...
The funny thing is, I'm familiar with the song "We're in the Money" and the movie Gold Diggers of 1933 because of their brief inclusion in the 1967 movie Bonnie and Clyde (the first movie I can recall seeing in a theater, at the ripe old age of six; a heck of an introduction to cinema!). Were it not for that I'd probably have little or no knowledge of either because I generally don't like musicals.
 

skydog757

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I have never heard the term used, but I remember having read it in a novel or short story at one time. I enjoy writers that have an ear for authentic regional dialogue.
 
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The other day - and this is how I remember terms for this thread - as I saw something in an old movie (an unkept little girl) a term popped into my head, she's a "ragamuffin." I remember it always being used to reference a messy, unkept, not neat kid. I have not heard that one in decades.
 

KILO NOVEMBER

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The other day - and this is how I remember terms for this thread - as I saw something in an old movie (an unkept little girl) a term popped into my head, she's a "ragamuffin." I remember it always being used to reference a messy, unkept, not neat kid. I have not heard that one in decades.

When I was a child and not dressed in a way my mother approved, she would say, "You don't want to go around looking like a ragamuffin, do you?"

Like most children, my appearance didn't figure importantly in my own thinking.
 

itsbruce

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Flummery. The phenomenon is never going to die out, of course, but the word is no longer in use. Except by me and a few other die-hards.
 
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That reminds me a little of a teacher I had back in grade school, who would tell us to quit "cuttin' the fool". I guess this was akin to " cuttin' the rug", another term all but disappeared, but instead of reference to dancin' she meant tomfoolerin'

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