The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was created in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first month in office (on March 31, 1933). The CCC was an interdepartmental work and relief program that sent young, unemployed men from the cities to work on conservation projects in rural areas at a dollar a day. The Labor Department[?]'s role was to recruit participants in the program. To do this, the employment service was hastily beefed up and mobilized. Within a week there was organized within it a National Re-Employment Service[?] to handle recruitment. In a short time there were 250,000 young enrollees working in CCC camps all around the country. One of the most successful and well-received New Deal programs, when the CCC disbanded in 1942 several million young men had participated.
Proverbs, ix:17 has it: "Stolen waters are sweet." "What are you giving
xxxviii:16. The common slang.html">slang, "a bad man," in referring to Western
Spenser's _Faerie Queen_, Massinger's play _"A New Way to Pay Old
blow on," meaning to inform, is in Shakespeare's _"As You Like it_."
"All cry and no wool" is in Butler's _"Hudibras_." "Pious frauds,"
excuse, is from Smollett's "_Peregrine Pickle_." Shakespeare also used
heathen Chinee," and "Ways that are dark, and tricks that are vain," are
War when one soldier refused to give a drink to another. "Not if I know
right," had its beginning in Chicago also and first was "What's the
millions in it," and "By a large majority" come from Mark Twain's _Gilded
the matter," "go hire a hall," "take in your sign," "dry up," "hump
head.html">head on him," "no back talk," "bottom dollar," "went off on his ear,"
gently," "dead gone," "busted," "counter jumper," "put up or shut up,"
"barefooted on the top of the head," "a little too fresh," "champion
silk," "name your poison," "died with his boots on," "old hoss," "hunkey
are all Americanisms in slang.
California especially has been most fecund in this class of figurative
"rough deal," "square deal," "flush times," "pool your issues," "go bury
egg," "go climb a tree.html">tree," "plug hats," "Dolly Vardens," "well.html">well fixed,"
wash," "slug of whiskey," "it pans out well," and "I should smile."
durn it," "an up-hill job," "slick," "short cut," "guess not," "correct
"bark up the wrong tree," "great snakes," "I reckon," "playing 'possum,"
beats the Dutch," "you bet," "you bet your boots," sprang from New York.
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