TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ostler,Rosemarie
TI  - Dewdroppers, waldos, and slackers: a decade-by-decade guide to the vanishing vocabulary of the twentieth century 
AV  - PE2838 .D493 2003
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Americanisms
KW  - English language
KW  - Obsolete words
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
KW  - Slang
KW  - Dictionaries
KW  - United States
N1  - 1 (pages 215-222) and index; A century's worth of old (and new) words --; 1900-1919 : Modern times --; twenties : flappers and flaming youth --; thirties : swinging cats in Hooverville --; forties : Rosie the riveter and G.I. Joe --; fifties : hipsters in Squaresville --; sixties : getting with it --; seventies : pet rocks and plumbers --; eighties : tubular times --; nineties : dot-comming into Y2K --; Good-bye to a great century; 2
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip042/2003008302.html
ER  -