10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LOLLAPALOOSA»
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lollapaloosa in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
lollapaloosa and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
S.J. PERELMAN All agreed that Luba Pneumatic was a lollapaloosa, the Eighth
Wonder of the World (1970). [Fanciful formation.] lallygag verb intr. Also lollygag.
US 1 To fool around; to dawdle. 1862–. SPRINGFIELD (Massachusetts) UNION ...
John Ayto, John Simpson, 2010
2
Don't Let All the Pretty Days Get by
Official Lollapaloosa Committee vehicles had been scrambled as soon as the
heist was discovered. The caravan of cars wound through Albuquerque streets in
an attempt to track the balloon break out from the ground. A security officer stuck
...
3
The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950
... to the nadir pitch in the song, scale degree 7 above the dominant seventh
chord at bar 15 (example 191). There the lyric ("thee") follows yet another lapse
into the vernacular, the American slang word "lollapaloosa," which means
humdinger.
4
The Poets of Tin Pan Alley : A History of America's Great ...
Hear me holler I choose a sweet lollapaloosa in thee! "Lollapaloosa" is not just a
show-off rhyme: it comes from the American tall-tale talk that was Twain's idiom,
and, with its connotations of hugeness, works with the expanding imagery ...
Philip Furia Professor of English and American Studies University of Minnesota, 1990
5
The Royalscope Fe-as-ko: A Novel
Whatever it was, I knew it musta been a lollapaloosa. I'll tell you honest, my
biggest fear was that I, Royal R. Leckner, overnight, had become the biggest
contributor to the Woman's Suffer-age Movement that which was doing its
damnedest to ...
6
The Richard Rodgers Reader
Would'st kiss me pretty? Would'st hold my hand? Both thine eyes are cute too;
what they do to me. Hear me holler I choose a Sweet lollapaloosa In thee. . . .
Here, the first two lines are male and exterior, the fourth and fifth female and
interior.
Geoffrey Block Professor of Music History University of Puget Sound, 2002
Doth it not all come aft to you, puritysnooper, in the way television opes longtimes
ofter when Potollomuck Sotyr or Sourdanapplous the Lollapaloosa? The charges
are, you will remember, the chances are, you won't; bit it's old Joe, the Java ...
James Joyce, Robbert-Jan Henkes, Erik Bindervoet, 2012
8
Joyce's Finnegans Wake: The Curse of Kabbalah
Doth it not all come aft to you, puritysnooper, in the way television opes longtimes
ofter when Potollomuck Sotyr or Sourdanapplous the Lollapaloosa? This father of
storms mars the human mind over uncharted rock and evasive weed. Only the ...
9
The Vikings on Film: Essays on Depictions of the Nordic ...
The review in Film Daily similarly singled out the “lollapaloosa of a battle,” in
which the castle occupied by the wicked Vikings is taken when it is burned in “a
blaze that is a conflagration” (6). The siege sequence and the burning of the
castle, ...
... and 28mm f/2.8 FD Canon lens._ Exposure not recorded; film, Kodak Ektar 100
. CREATlVEiZOO 1st By zooming durin the exposure, Robin ill turned Miami
Beach's Colony Hotel into a lollapaloosa of color. Hill used a tripod-mounted
Nikon ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LOLLAPALOOSA»
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lollapaloosa is used in the context of the following news items.
Catchphrase-palooza! Origins Of Lollapalooza: The Festival, The …
... early 1900s, it was "lallapalootza," per the Oxford English Dictionary's research, and in the early '50s, the New Yorker ran it as "lollapaloosa."). «Yahoo! Music, Aug 12»
What's a lollapalooza?
And "Though I had long ago forgotten the background, characters, and plot, I distinctly remembered it as a lollapaloosa," from an October 1951 ... «Chicago Tribune, Aug 11»
