from the 11th edition
Baileyism- ('bay-lee-iz-um)A unique way of phrasing something that only Bailey could do.
* 43 Prominent among the nonbelongers was a peppery and stocky soldier of fortune, Captian Myles Standish, dubbed by one of his critics "Captian Shrimp." * 43 The compact was signed by 41 adult males, 11 of them with the exalted rank of "mister"... * 54 Sir Edmund Andros attempted to flee in woman's clothing but was betrayed by boots protruding beneath his dress. * 56 Dutch Residues in NY * 60 Swedish-tinged Delaware consisted of only 3 counties - 2 at high tide, the witticism goes... * 72 One Virginia governor had such difficulty keeping his servants sober that he struck a deal allowing them to get drunk the next day if they would only lay off the liquor long enough to look after his guests at a celebration of the queen's birthday in 1711. * 74 One man was punished for kicking his wife off a stool; another was disciplined for drawing an "uncivil" portrait of his mate in the snow. * 89 Lawyers were commonly regarded as noisy windbags or troublemaking rogues... * 99 He [Lord Cornbury] proved to be a drunkard, a spendthrift, a grafter, an embezzler, a religious bigot, and a vain fool, especially when he appeared in public dressed like a woman. * 101 "Yuletide is fooltide" * 106 They [the French furtrappers] littered the land with scores of placenames, including Boton Rouge (red sticck), Terre Haute (high land), Des Moines (some monks), and Grand Teton (big breast). * 129 Control of the British ministry was now seized by the gifted but erratic "Champagne Charley" Townshend, a man who could deliver brrilliant speeches in Parliament even while drunk. * 136 On one occasion a supply of biscuits, captured some 15 years earlier from the French, was softened by dropping cannonballs on them. * 138 He [Baron von Steuben] spoke no English when he reached America, but he soon taught his men that bayonets were not for broiling beefsteaks over open fires. * 148 "A Tory is a thing whose head is in England, and its body in America, and its neck ought to be stretched." * 155 Strange French Bedfellows * 156 To say that America, with some French aid, defeated England is like saying, "Daddy and I killed the bear." * 198 The giddy-headed envoy [Citizen Edmond Genet] - all sail and no anchor- was soon swept away by his enthusiastic reception by the Jeffersonian Republicans. * 200 "Bonny Johny" Adams Becomes President * 201 Many citizens regarded him [John Adams] with "respectful irritation." * 220 The pistol with which Burr killed Hamilton in 1804 blew the brightest brain out of the federallist party... * 223 Enngland ruled the waves and waived the rules. * 226 Madison was small of stature (5 feet, 4 inches; 1.62 meters), light of weight (about 100 lb; 45 kg), bald of head, and weak of voice. * 233 It [the regular army] had to be supplemented by the even more poorly trained militia, who were sometimes distinguished by their speed of foot in leaving the battlefield. Some of the ranking generals were semisenile heirlooms from the Revolutionary War, rusting on their laurels and lacking in vigor and vision. * 234 ...Oliver Hazard Perry managed to build a fleet of green-timbered ships on the shores of Lake Erie, manned by even greener seamen. * 257 Snobbish bigwigs, unhappy over the change, sneered at "coonskin congressmen" and at the newly enfranchised "bipeds of the forest." * 261 John Quincy Adams was a chip off the old family glacier. *** 265 He [Adams] was even accused of having procured a servant girl for the lust of a Russian nobleman while minister to Russia - in short, of having served as a pimp. * 283 Bowie's blade was widely known in the SW as the "genuine Arkansas toothpick." * 283 ...he [Sam Houston] took up transient residence with the Arkansas Indians, who dubbed hiim "Big Drunk." * 325 A pioneer American steamer, the Savannah, had crept across the Atlantic in 1819, but it used a sail most of the time and was pursued for a day by a British captian who thought it afire. * 330 Not only did he [Peter Cartwright] lash the Devil with his tongue, but with his fists he knocked out rowdies who tried to break up his meetings. His Christianity was definitely muscular. * 335 "clinging-vine bride" was the ideal. * 341 The Shakers attained a membership of about 6000 in 1840, but since their monastic customs prohibited both marriage and sexual relations, they were virtually extinct by 1940. * 398 Most ominous of all, the war rearoused the snarling dog of the slavery issue, and the beast did not stop yelping until drowned in the blood of the Civil War. * 408 At the height of the controversy in 1850, president Taylor unknowingly helped the cause of concession by dying suddenly... * 448 "Forward men! They have cheese in their haversacks!" cried one Southern officer as he attacked the Yankees. * 466 For four hours, on March 9, 1862, the little "Yankee cheesebox on a raft" fought the wheezy Merrimack to a standstill. * 506 Americans did not feel that they could offend their great and good friend, the tsar, by hurling his walrus-covered iceburgs back into his face. * 513 He [Grant] once reportedly remarked that Venice (Italy) would be a fine city if only it were drained. * 516 "What I know about swallowing" * 518 Once needled by a rival as having a "turkey gobbler strut," Conkling was forever after portrayed by cartoonists as a gobbling turkey. *** 529 Mugwumps - "great man" "holier than thou" latter day punsters gived that the Mugwumps were priggish politicians who sat on the fence with their "mugs" on one side and their "wumps" on the other. * 544 Telephone boys were at first employed as operators, but their profanity shocked patrons. * 583 As a result of new health-promoting precautions, including campaigns against public spitting, life expectancy at birth was measurably increased. * 590 ...male critics who insisted that women were made for loving, not for voting. * 610 A "genuwine" guntoting cowpuncher, riding where men were men and smelled like horses, could justifiably boast of his toughness. * 624 In piecing out quarums, he [Reed] counted as present certain Democrats in the chamber who had not answered the roll and who, rule book in hand, furiously denied that they were legally present. * 633 He [Hanna] was personally attracted to McKinley; "I love McKinley," he once said. *** 660 He [General Joseph ("Fighting Joe") Wheeler (Confederate cavalry hero of the Civil War)] allegedly cried in the heat of battle [in Cuba], "to hell with the Yankees! Dammit, I mean the Spaniards." * 686 By 1900 the Senate had so many rich men that it was often sneered at as the "millionaires' Club." * 687 Urban reformers likewise attacked "slumlords," juvenile delinquency, and wide-open prostitution (vice-at-a-price), which flourished in red-light districts unchallanged by bribed police. * 689 He [Teddy Roosevelt] was profoundly annoyed by the "extraordinary stupidity and bad temper" of the "wooden-headed gentry" who operated the mines. As he later confessed, if it had not been for the dignity of his high office, he would have taken one of them "by the seat of his breeches" and "chucked him out of the window." * 691 "Mary had a little lamb and when she saw it sicken, she shipped it off to Packingtown and now it's labeled chicken." * 692 Earth Control * 693 Roosevelt pined to preserve the nation's shrinking forests. * 696 Roosevelt, ever in the limelight, left soon after the election for a lion hunt in Africa. His numerous enemies clinked glasses while toasting "Health to the lions," and a few irreverently prayed that some big cat would "do its duty." * 699 "You must always remember," a British diplomat cautioned his collegues, "that the president is about six." * 699 He [Taft] was a poor judge of public opinion, and his candor made him a chronic victim of "foot-in-mouth" disease. * 699 Taft revealed a further knack for shooting himself in the foot in his handling of conservation. * 700 The once genial Taft, now in a fighting mood, retorted by branding Roosevelt supporters "emotionalists and neurotics." * 704 William Allen White, the caustic Kansas journalist, later wrote, "Roosevelt bit me and I went mad." * 704 Roosevelt, fighting mad, assailed Taft as a "fathead" with the brain of a "guinea pig." * 709 Railroad workers, numbering about 1.7 million, were not sidetracked. * 717 Hughes ("an animated feather duster") * 725 The entire nation, catching the frenzied spirit of a religious revival, burst into song. This was undoubtedly America's singingest war. * 727 The prewar song "I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier" was changed to "I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Slacker" which in turn inspired the cruel parody, "I Didn't Raise My Dog to be a Sausage." * 736 The senator's mind, quipped one critic, was like the sail of his native New England: "naturally barren but highly cultivated." * 757 Henry Ford: "History is bunk." * 765 Puritanism, he jibed, was "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, might be happy." * 772 A blowsy, nest-feathering crowd moved into Washington and proceeded to hoodwink Harding, whom many regarded as an "amiable boob." * 775 He [Hughes] proposed that the scaled down navies of America and Britain should enjoy parity in battle sihps and aircraft carriers, with Japan on the small end of a 5:3:3 ratio. This arrangement sounded to the sensitive Japanese ambassador like "Rolls-Royce, Rolls-Royce, Ford." * 816 No one, as Al Smith remarked, "shouts at Santa Claus." * 816 But in his [Roosevelt] eyes the cloistered old men on the Supreme bench, like fossilized stumbling blocks, stood stubbornly in the pathway of progress. * 817 At best, Roosevelt was headstrong and not fully aware of the fact that the court, in popular thinking, had become something of a sacred cow. * 840 ...Senator Taft (who was reputed to have the finest mind in Washington until he made it up)... * 887 But gradually he [Truman] evolved from a shrinking pipsqueak into a scrappy little cuss, gaining confidence to the point of cockiness. * 910 McCarthy - "low-blow Joe" * 920 America and Britain tentatively offered financial help [for a dam], but when Nasser began to flirt openly with the communist camp, Secretary of State Dulles dramatically withdrew the dam offer. * 959 "Trust no one over 30." * 979 President Johnson had sneered that "Jerry" was so lackinng in brainpower that he could not walk and chew gum at the same time. * 1005 George Herbert Walker Bush was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. * 1010 ...the allied commander, the beefy and blunt American General Norman ("Stormin' Norman") Schwarzkopf, took nothing for granted. * 1016 Women also figured prominently in President Clinton's cabinet... * 1025 ...teachers...might as well end up as road-kill on the information superhighway.
The word "yeasty" can be found on the following pages: 79, 288, 577, 687, 755
If any of you AP student have some that I missed (in the 11th edition), email me!
