Thursday, May 18, 2006

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Thursday, February 02, 2006

A quote from a Washington Post article about retired-Senator, now Episcopal priest, John Danforth:

Danforth is no squalling liberal. He is a lifelong Republican. And his own political history shows he is no milquetoast.

milquetoast
noun
One who has a meek, timid, unassertive nature.
WORD HISTORY An indication of the effect on the English language of popular culture is the adoption of names from the comic strips as English words. Casper Milquetoast, created by Harold Webster in 1924, was a timid and retiring man named for a timid food. The first instance of milquetoast as a common noun is found in the mid-1930s. Milquetoast thus joins the ranks of other such words, including sad sack, from a blundering army private invented by George Baker in 1942, and Wimpy, from J. Wellington Wimpy in the Popeye comic strip, which became a trade name for a hamburger. If we look to a related form of popular culture, the animated cartoon, we must of course acknowledge Mickey Mouse, which has become a slang term for something that is easy, insignificant, small-time, worthless, or petty.
"milquetoast." The American Heritage┬о Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. Answers.com 02 Feb. 2006. http://www.answers.com/topic/milquetoast

At the Wimpy restaurants in Delhi, the menu features lambburgers instead of hamburgers.

Thursday, December 01, 2005

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