Pam Webb

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Why We Say #20–highbrows to hobos and hoodlums


High Brows:




Higher than a Kite:

“Rum, anyone?” image:






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9 thoughts on “Why We Say #20–highbrows to hobos and hoodlums

  1. Fiiiine. Keep you closets as messy as you must.

    Besides, I am too busy trying to get my lovely wife to clean out her own. How on earth does that woman expect me to put away her laundry where there is no ding dang room to hang it?

    As for “hobo,” isn’t there a hierarchy of terms for the homeless of the Depression era? Hobos were willing to work, say, but “tramps” were not? And bums were petty criminals? (I probably have the terms wrong, but does that ring a bell?)

  2. I love the “high as a kite” one – so interesting. I really do love this post that you do. I always learn so much!

  3. I love getting my edg-a-medication here. And perhaps the reporter was higher than a kite as he was typing out “Muldoon.” This theory is based on what I know about newspaper reporters of the time. (You’ll have to ask Mike about those nefarious critters) The kind that filed their stories from atop a bar stool….. 😀

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