Posted in DigitalNC, History, Tar Heelia, tagged bugs bunny, crime slang, daffy duck, dashiell hammett, easter yeggs, golden yeggs, hemp nc, john edwards, robbins nc, southern pines pilot, the glass key, yegg on January 13, 2012 | 2 Comments »
What caught my eye on the 1935 front page of The Pilot of Southern Pines — thank you, NC Digital Heritage Center — was this headline: YEGGS CRACK SAFE IN POSTOFFICE AT HEMP, GET LITTLE Yeggs? Hemp? The Google Ngram Viewer charts the abrupt rise and fall of yegg as slang for safecracker or burglar. [...]
Posted in History, Memorabilia Moment, Tar Heelia, tagged greeting cards, john edwards, quotable notables on July 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In a bookstore the other day I noticed a wide-ranging line of greeting cards called Quotable Notables. Priced at $3.95 each are scores of die-cut color images of historical figures (e.g., Einstein, Picasso, Freud, Emily Dickinson, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mark Twain) and current politicians (the Obamas, the Clintons, Sarah Palin), along with a choice of [...]
