American sayings
Subtitle: famous phrases, slogans, and aphorisms
By: by Henry F. Woods.
Publisher: Essential Books, Duell, Sloan and Pearce
Published: 1945
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: Quotations, American
Notes: Bibliography: p. 293-296.
"The arrangement of this book is topical and chronological ... Its purpose is to explain the origin and occasion of phrases and sayings which are or have been current in this country."--Foreword.