{"id":4662,"date":"2021-02-27T21:14:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T02:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/?p=4662"},"modified":"2021-02-27T21:43:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T02:43:52","slug":"4662-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.alumnae.mtholyoke.edu\/1961\/4662-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Words"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n
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Lost Words of Those Of Us Lucky Enough To Have Lived Through the 1950’s<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The other day a not so elderly, (I say 75), lady said something to her son about driving a Jalopy; and he looked at her, quizzically and said, “What the heck is a Jalopy?” He had never heard of the word jalopy! She knew she was old … But not that old!<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, I hope you are Hunky Dory after you read this and chuckle<\/span><\/p>\n

About a month ago, I illuminated some old expressions that have become obsolete because of the inexorable march of technology. These phrases included: Don’t touch that dial, Carbon copy, You sound like a broken record, and Hung out to dry.<\/span><\/p>\n

Back in the olden days, we had a lot of moxie. We’d put on our best bib and tucker , tostraighten up and fly right.<\/span><\/p>\n

Heavens to Betsy! Gee whillikers! Jumping jehoshaphat, Holy moley!<\/span><\/p>\n

We were in like Flynn andliving the life of Riley ; and even a regular guy couldn’t accuse us of being aknucklehead, a nincompoop or a pill. Not for all the tea in China!<\/span><\/p>\n

Back in the olden days, life used to be swell, but when’s the last time anything was swell? <\/span><\/p>\n

Swell has gone the way of beehives, pageboys and the D.A.; of spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes, and pedal pushers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh, my aching back! Kilroy was here, but he isn’t anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n

We wake up from what surely has been just a short nap, and before we can say,”Well, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle!” Or, “This is a fine kettle of fish!” We discover that the words we grew up with, the words that seemed omnipresent – as oxygen – have vanished with scarcely a notice from our tongues and our pens and our keyboards.<\/span><\/p>\n

Poof, go the words of our youth, the words we’ve left behind. We blink, and they’re gone. Where have all those great phrases gone?<\/span><\/p>\n

Long gone: Pshaw, The milkman did it. Hey! It’s your nickel. Don’t forget to pull the chain. Knee high to a grasshopper. Well, Fiddlesticks! Going like sixty. I’ll see you in the funny papers. Don’t take any wooden nickels. Wake up and smell the roses.<\/span><\/p>\n

It turns out there are more of these lost words and expressions than Carter has liver pills. This can be disturbing stuff! (Carter’s Little Liver Pills are gone too!)<\/span><\/p>\n

Leaves us to wonder where Superman will find a phone booth… See ya later, alligator! Okidoki. <\/span><\/p>\n

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