the "hispanic" screws with the effect. i don't know what they called them back then :cry: I'm almost certain I've seen the term hispanic used on documents from around that era when I was doing museum work.
haha, I'm guess late 1500s, around Stratford-on-Avon, England WRONG! It's 1948 Chicago. That's how our grandparents talked when they were younger, right?
a bit too much, "pard". niggardly means cheap or stingy he knows what it means, dammit! his grandfather gave his life to make sure that those people would never be free! Exactly!
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Dude....."auto-car"? It's freaking 1948. People weren't cranking their cars up with levers outside Wrigley. Dost thou knowest the meaning of the term: "Party Pooper?" Howest abouts: "Buzz Kill?" fair enough...
I love how most of us, caught myself as well, are treating 1948 language like it's the 19th century or something. Most of our grandparents were like 30 in 1948, it's not really that long ago.
It's 1940's United States, not 1880's England. A gay fellow then? I dunno, probably would have said "gay man". I don't recall my grandfather ever using the word "fellow."