Dewdroppers, Waldos, and Slackers
Subtitle: A Decade-by-Decade Guide to the Vanishing Vocabulary of the Twentieth Century
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 239
Table of contents: label: Introduction
pagenum: ix
title: A Century's Worth of Old (and New Words); label: 1900-1919
pagenum: 1
title: Modern Times; label: The Twenties
pagenum: 25
title: Flappers and Flaming Youth; label: The Thirties
pagenum: 47
title: Swinging Cats in Hooverville; label: The Forties
pagenum: 71
title: Rosie the Riveter and G.I. Joe; label: The Fifties
pagenum: 95
title: Hipsters in Squaresville; label: The Sixties
pagenum: 119
title: Getting With It; label: The Seventies
pagenum: 145
title: Pet Rocks and Plumbers; label: The Eighties
pagenum: 169
title: Tubular Times; label: The Nineties
pagenum: 191
title: Dot-Comming into Y2K; label: Afterword
pagenum: 213
title: Good-Bye to a Great Century; title: 215
label: Bibliography; title: 223
label: Index; title: 239
label: Picture Credits