tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8570718375010661810.post4595902903024291650..comments2024-03-15T18:01:26.787-05:00Comments on Melvilliana: Gansevoort Melville as Broadway exquisiteScott Norsworthyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00458190971293597545noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8570718375010661810.post-68035579491451594482017-05-09T00:38:22.763-05:002017-05-09T00:38:22.763-05:00A late example: Miriam Coffin.A late example: <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Bok2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA6&dq=%22Now+Miriam+Coffin+and+her+daughter+Ruth+were+very+pinks+and+patterns+of+women.%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj3qqD_i-LTAhVDKCYKHV97DaMQ6AEIJjAA#v=onepage&q=%22Now%20Miriam%20Coffin%20and%20her%20daughter%20Ruth%20were%20very%20pinks%20and%20patterns%20of%20women.%22&f=false" rel="nofollow">Miriam Coffin</a>.Robert J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12937384579138400443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8570718375010661810.post-26630286712287704312017-02-17T19:15:52.000-06:002017-02-17T19:15:52.000-06:00Right, so "pink of democracy" is an oxym...Right, so "pink of democracy" is an oxymoronic slur, like "limousine liberal" or "billionaire populist" (or maybe like M-D's "bumpkin dandy").<br />Robert J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12937384579138400443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8570718375010661810.post-69344829462807222232017-02-17T18:03:04.424-06:002017-02-17T18:03:04.424-06:00Aha, good. And now I find "pink of modern Dem...Aha, good. And now I find "pink of modern Democracy" is recycled trash-talk from the 1840 campaign. The Nashville Republican Banner on June 30, 1840 reprinted a story from the St Louis Republican about how an old veteran for Harrison shows up a young "pink of modern democracy." The Democratic "pink" is described as "One of those band-box raised chaps, a fellow whose hands were as white and soft as a newly made kid glove" whose characteristic occupation was "prating of democracy and Van Burenism."Scott Norsworthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00458190971293597545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8570718375010661810.post-76415643511269764212017-02-17T16:50:22.037-06:002017-02-17T16:50:22.037-06:00I'm standing next to an OED at the moment, and...I'm standing next to an OED at the moment, and definition 2.c.(in one of the many entries) for "pink" is "an exquisite [!], a smart person, one of the elite." And in def. 3. we have the example, "'Pink night', the rendezvous of the fashionable exclusives."<br /><br />So, maybe not whales, but merchant ships:<br /><br /><i>Whereas, some merchant ships crossing each other's wake in the mid-Atlantic, will oftentimes pass on without so much as a single word of recognition, mutually cutting each other on the high seas, like a brace of dandies in Broadway; and all the time indulging, perhaps, in finical criticism upon each other's rig.</i>Robert J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12937384579138400443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8570718375010661810.post-6458915129811092192017-02-16T18:16:47.537-06:002017-02-16T18:16:47.537-06:00pink of Democracy, meaning the prime example, fine...pink of Democracy, meaning the prime example, finest specimen of rabble-rouser.Scott Norsworthyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00458190971293597545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8570718375010661810.post-70887573680593729282017-02-16T16:41:05.592-06:002017-02-16T16:41:05.592-06:00So, they're whales.
Like fashionables, they a...So, they're whales.<br /><br /><i>Like fashionables, they are for ever on the move in leisurely search of variety. You meet them on the Line in time for the full flower of the Equatorial feeding season, having just returned, perhaps, from spending the summer in the Northern seas, and so cheating summer of all unpleasant weariness and warmth. By the time they have lounged up and down the promenade of the Equator awhile, they start for the Oriental waters in anticipation of the cool season there, and so evade the other excessive temperature of the year.</i><br /><br />But what is a "pink"?<br />Robert J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12937384579138400443noreply@blogger.com