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“Small boy fashions” featured in the Ogden standard-examiner, 1920.

From A dictionary of slang and colloquial English by John S. Farmer and W.E. Henley, published in 1905.

me: a guy named pussyfoot johnson led the anti-saloon league in the prohibition era like some kind of teetotalling batman

From A dictionary of slang and colloquial English by John S. Farmer and W.E. Henley, published in 1905.

drag for a historically accurate first name from each of these time periods

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Proof that people have been dramatic since at least 1905. Before “I’m dead shfdfjgf”, there was “carry me out and bury me decently.”