European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes mondav.march2,1987 columns today s crossword Dobz is beauts and humdinger b Williams fire i m not known to make Ninny Aid sen. Lloyd bin own modestly in Elri caring himself from a find raising juror but when t do it � a this is a botched use of a that com Fay new Yor mayor Fiorello h. U Guardia when i make a Miv Lake it s a the Little Flower confession be came one of the great observations in political Wisdom comparable to Woodrow Wilson suggestion that an opponent in difficulty should not be attacked expressed As. Never murder a Man who is committing and Navy Secretary Claude Swanson i paean to political loyally in the new Deal erg when the water reaches the upper deck follow the bin own would ordinarily be censured Here for his half Rcman Ibfred evocation of la Guardia s More succinct self analysts but the Slang word he chose to sub Iii Ute for Beau has Merit. Docile is Early 1930s Slang occasionally used by our senior statesmen and has a Nice Art Deco connotation dirty Doodle used by president Reagan jocularity to mean deception is from the same in. The definition and ooze is usually something outstanding or excellent but the Slang word adds inst and enthusiastic emphasis a second meaning has emerged of a stunning us most common synonym is another Slang term humdinger first listed in the 1905 dialect notes As. A term of admiration in Nebraska dialect the example being she s a humdinger a More recent Slang term with a sense that overlaps do Otic is whopper though thai word has since the j 8th Century been associates Wilh size and is often limited to a lie told in the National interest or the Trade name Tor an Emit thick hamburger Doolie was spelled Doczy in a Washington Post editorial applauding the senator s fund railing Retreat. This appears to be Post style in a 1977 column by Nancy Collins a Washington hostess wag described As just dead sure tonight party for her friends. Will be a guaranteed doozy because As she telling friends 1 have 15 ambassadors and 20 senators " presumably one was the senior senator from Texas Bentsen other Spellings include Doosie e and doozy but these do not express Trie sound which predominates. I think the in ending suggests a noun on the analogy of Flozzie they ending however suggests an adjective or adverb on the analogy of woozy and woo a Boozer is a noun synonym for Drinker and the adjective is Boozy an Early variant of Dottie in the 1930s was doozy a. Slang has a Nice Way of following patterns the earliest citation in Wentworth and rentier s dictionary of american Slang is this 1951 comment by bandleader Merodith Willson the first orchestra 1ever had was really a unlike the roots of most Slang terms the roots of doom arc far from obscure the expensive Duesenberg automobile captured the Public imagination during the Early 1930s, and a caption in a nostalgic Issue of life Magazine in 1983 under a picture of the motorcar read Doories like this boat tailed 33 speedster purred for Gable and Flynn at 100 Daniel Schorr senior news analyst for National Public had to was the tint 10 notice a phrase buried in one of the duller reaches of the Senate intelligence committee re port on its preliminary inquiry into the Iran Mew. A memorandum from
