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His use of a phrase known better in its less grammatically correct form — "how's tricks?" — made me wonder when that got started … which led me to a Dictionary of Catch Phrases that has found the phrase in writing as early as 1904.
I can't trace the source of the last sentence in Herman's message.
2 comments:
Is there any chance that refers to that the Jehovah's witnesses had a prediction the world would end in 1914? Maybe he was joking about and using jokey language.
I had no idea the Jehovah's Witnesses thought the world was going to end in 1914. I'll bet they were embarrassed when it didn't!
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