One in an occasional series looking at how language changes within a lifetime. Today’s entry:
“You have mass calisthenics and mechanical pitchers and moving pictures to look at to see what you’re doing wrong, and a host of other things.”
— Fred Snodgrass, baseball player from 1908-16, during the 1960s, as told in “The Glory of Their Times” (1966)
Oh, those calisthenics and mechanical pitchers. And, the moving pictures. Those newfangled doo-hickeys.
James daSilva 