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sometimes they do stuff like this..
I have an entry in the wwftd list for the word plunderbund, in which I state that it was coined by Adlai Stevenson.
My source was Stevensons: A Biography of an American Family.In reply to:Throughout the campaign, Stevenson one-liners stung: we will clean house of "Greed, Grime and Green and the state house gang." He called the governor dirty names: "Bertie's Boy," "McCarthy" Green, and "Governor Greed." He coined a new word, "plunderbund," to describe Green's malfeasance. He filled a black notebook with alliterative slams—"perfidious Pete," "Dwight the blight," "Pete—the man who never said no to a payroller and never said yes to honest government." He was funny, self-deprecatory, and, especially in the beginning, long-winded and long-worded. His comment that Illinois had game wardens who had never been closer to a quail than "Ananias to the truth" sent some listeners to their dictionaries and others to an understanding that this candidate was not one of "the boys." Later the gibe reappeared in a more populist form as more "game wardens than rabbits."
this was during the gubernatorial campaign of 1948.
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so what does a lexicographer do, anyways?
tsuwm 02/03/2005 12:16 AM ![]()
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Jackie 02/03/2005 2:11 AM ![]()
plunderbund, cont.
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Jackie 02/03/2005 4:59 PM ![]()
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Faldage 02/06/2005 10:47 AM ![]()
Ah! Ambrosia!; or we take this crap seriously
tsuwm 02/07/2005 4:28 PM
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