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Woodsy's original motto was “Give a hoot! Don't pollute” and has since been updated to “Lend a hand—care for the land!" [ 2 ] Together with Smokey Bear, Woodsy Owl has become an American environmental icon that has found its way into pop culture in numerous songs, comics, and television appearances.
Hootenanny is also a rural word for "party" or get-together. It can refer to a folk music party with an open mic, at which different performers are welcome to get up and play in front of an audience. According to Pete Seeger he first heard the word hootenanny in Seattle, Washington, in the summer of 1941 while touring the area with Woody ...
Harold Bell was born on October 5, 1919, in Union City, New Jersey. [3] [1] He was one of three sons born to his parents, David and Hilda Rosenthal Belsky.His father worked as an embroiderer.
Theories: (a) Yiddish corruption of Parvenu; [15] (b) derives from an acronym for "Polish and Russian Union", supposedly a Jewish club founded in Kimberley in the 1870s, according to Bradford's Dictionary of South African English. [16]) The more assimilated and established Jews from Germany and England looked down on this group, and their ...
Feel-good music is something the world could use more of at the moment, and "Lil Boo Thang" beckons listeners towards a good time. For months the song's chorus has been at the top of social media ...
Although legend persists that the Hays Office fined producer David O. Selznick $5,000 (~$113,026 in 2024) for using the word "damn", in fact the MPPDA board passed an amendment to the Production Code a month and a half before the film's release, on November 1, 1939, that allowed use of the words "hell" or "damn" when their use "shall be ...
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
Rhyming slang is a form of slang word construction in the English language. It is especially prevalent among Cockneys in England, and was first used in the early 19th century in the East End of London ; hence its alternative name, Cockney rhyming slang .