Word Association #5

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Three of a kind

full house

bags full

fruit and vegetable market

veganism

no leather shoes

Zola Budd

Zola Pieterse (née Budd) is a middle-distance and long-distance runner. Budd's career was unusual in that she mainly trained and raced barefoot.

Billy Budd

The Billy

billy goat gruff

The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats

wolf in sheep's clothing

Red Riding Hood

hoodie

opera coat

opera glasses

cocktail glasses

T. S. Eliotʻs The Cocktail Party

The garden party and other stories - Katherine Mansfield

Bowersʻs "The Party Battles of the Jackson Period"

Rachel Jackson

Rachel and her Children; Homeless Families in America
by Jonathan Kozol

Homeless - Paul Simon

Simon & Schuster, long-term U. S. publishers

Lex Schoenmaker

Schuster(German)=Schoenmaker(Dutch)=Shoemaker

"mechanic" (19th century sense):
a word meaning
various kinds of producers by hand in that era, including shoemakers, who "left out the middleman" and were their own retailers

guild

(some older)

"Iʻll GILD the faces of grooms with (Duncanʻs blood), for it must seem their GUILT."
(Play on the verb "gild" by Lady Macbeth
in Shakspeareʻs Macbeth)

AFL-CIO

Wallace W. Perkins, 1901-1959

philologist, and zealous C I O member before the CIO merger
with A F L; father of rolandperkins.

George Wallace

William Wallace ("Braveheart")

Mel Gibson

Gibson guitar

Bob Gibson old time Hall of Fame pitcher, St. Louis Cardinals

Lobelia Cardinalis

Cardinal Roncalli; later Pope John XXIII; recently canonized.

"Clarence and Claude"
short-lived comedy team in the Edgar Bergen & Charlie
Mc Carthy radio show, 1940s.

Snip en Snap

Cabaret Duo first performing in a Radio show in 1937

Klaas Eriks,* chemistry professor, Boston University.
1960s -70s; capable at renditions of the Netherlandsʻs equivalent of Britainʻs "music hall songs".

*Know subject

Erikson

German-American developmental psychologist

identity

identity theft; 21st century
dilemma, frequently heard of in the media and in current articles and lectures

Catfish

Catfish Hunter, old time all star New York Yankees pitcher. His victories included a perfect game.

Kingfish Huey Long

Long John Silver (American fast food restaurant or pirate book character; take your pick)

John R. Silber, Texas-born academic; long term President of Boston University. (He comes within two characters of having the Stevenson villainʻs name.)

Argentina

Argentina (masculine argentino) means in Italian "(made) of silver, silver coloured

" , , , the argent revelry"

highfalutin Keatsian phrase for a sparklingly-clad group of courtiers: "The Eve of St. Agnes"

Christmas Revels

Charles Dickensʻs A Christmas Carol

Queen Carola's six-wired bird-of-paradise

Queen Charlotte

Princess Diana ("the Peopleʻs princess")

Diana Rigg

Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles

Eleanor of Aquitaine
influential Anglo-Norman medieval queen consort; wife of Henry II of England

Blondie: long term comic strip by Chic Young
She and her husband "Dagwood", the anti-hero, have children named "Cookie" and "Alexander".

The "Harry Potter" books
by J. K. Rowling

Potter's Linea

Small pieces of strong licorice, in a metal box. Easy to take with you and share some with others

"Words Meaning Small Pieces and Amounts"
by SMART Thesaurus -- Google item

fragments

"Gather up the fragments, lest they be lost."
- - Jesus Christ re: the left-overs of the biblical miraculously-produced meal.

Crumbs From Your Table - U2

other story/finding by woman about dogs.

Peggie Bentonʻs "Finnish Food for your Table"

tabula rasa

Tory Temple
- - author of Heat, Tabula Rasa and several other works

The Tory Oak restaurant and historic site near varielle's locale.

Benjamin Thompson Count Rumford): Tory scientist
born in Woburn, MA. He was not regarded as another Benedict Arnold and visited the U.S. during the John Adams administration.

Benjamin Franklin

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.
(D, NY) mid-twentieth century U. S. politician

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill

Charles Churchill 18th century English poet. James Boswell was a drinking buddy of C. C. on the day of Samuel Johnson and Boswellʻs first meeting.

cc

(cubic centimeter)

cube root - - mathematical derivation; the root of a number that has bee raised to the 3rd power.

judiciary - which is the third power in the trias politica model.

Legislative, and Executive -- the other two "powers" (see 86).

the fourth estate

"Estate": English word that in the UK and Ireland means what Americans call a (very unpretentious) "housing project", but in the U.S. means a rather elite and spacious property

l' État, c'est moi - : the state, it is I : I myself am the nation

(by mistake) attributed to king Louis XIV of France 1638 - 1715
in French the 's' is sometimes replaced by an accent as é or ^ over the years

>89 rolandperkins: In Dutch is an estate the same as in America.

"estate . . . the same as in America." (90) Interesting; also interesting that Louis XIV did NOT say "Lʻetat cʻest moi".
(If not, who did?) And there is the legal meaning, which can be property of any kind, and the meaning of "profession" as in 88.

heirs

continuity

playing on 90:

"Louis, I AM France!"

line spoken to Louis (the THIRTEENTH) in a 1940s
Three Musketeers movie, by prime Minister, actually
dictator, Cardinal Richelieu

Louis Malle

consanguinity

"blood" relationships

siblings

Debra Lobatoʻs "Brothers and Sisters and Special Needs" . . .

Ipomea Lobata

flame azaleas

V. C. Andrewsʻs "Flowers in the Attic"

Edelweiss - Julie Andrews

St. Andrewʻs School* (Episcopal),
Honolulu, HI

rolandperkins ʻs daughter-in-law,
Nicole Field-Perkins, is the incoming principal.

Flag of Scotland

"flag of Scotland" (105)

Curious. Do you know from when this flag dates? I imagined their flag, which I first saw on a childʻs playing card, as a red lion, rampant, on a golden field. The only time Iʻve seen it in real life was at a concert held in Canada (Baddeck, N.S.), 1958. That one, too, was the red lion on gold.

>106 rolandperkins: 15th century

You know the Royal Standard of Scotland
I found the difference in use:
' The Royal Standard 'is the personal banner of the Monarch, technically no one else is allowed to fly it except a few people (Great Officers of State) who represent them. The National Flag is according to wikipedia :"for all individuals and corporate bodies to fly in order to demonstrate both their loyalty and Scottish nationality."

Nice you learned that by a playing card.

"from when this flag dates? - - 15th Century"

Thanks, EMS_24. So, I suppose it was
technically illegal, by Commonwealth standards, for a Canadian group, though mainly of Scottish ancestry, to fly it.

i take your scottisch standard as association and my following will be:
being the flag of our Province 'South-Holland'

(or play from >105 EMS_24: if that's easier)

De leeuw van Vlaanderen = The Lion of Flanders by Hendrik Conscience

Ralph Allenʻs Ask the Name of the Lion

(What's) the Name of the Game - ABBA

Graham Greeneʻs The Name of Action*

* a 1930s novel which Greene later said he did NOT want included in his Collected Works. In it, he seems to be partial to the protagonist who is a Right Wing ruler of
a former enclave of the defeated German
state, and says he is holding the enclave"in trust for the Empireʻʻ - he will not yield it to a German Republic.

Action Jackson

Jack the Dripper

Jack Levine, artist, contemporary of (115).

Emmanuel Levinas , French Philosopher.
"The Other is not knowable and cannot be made into an object of the self,"

Claude Emanuel Pastoret
French historian who worked under four regimes: Ancien regime, Revolutionary, Napoleonic, and Restoration. Author
of "Zoroastre, Confucius, et Muhammed."
Said to be the one who forwarded the making of St. Genevieve Church into
Parisʻs "Pantheon."

gods

Olympus, mountain in Northern Greece. Said to be the home of the major deities of the Classical era.

Olympia a music hall located in Paris, where a lot of music heroes have performed.

Olympia wife of Philip II of Macedon mother of Alexander the Great, 4th c. B.C.

"Lady of Spain"
old time pop song

The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain! - My Fair Lady

"... . . and whereʻs that soggy plain?
-- In Spain, in Spain!

Andalusia, with fields full of grain

Barcelona

Moixʻs Barcelona: the City of Gaudi

Modernista (Catalan modernism) in architecture

, ,

la sagrada familia

stonemasons

In the basement of the cathedral stone cutters were cutting all the needed stones in different shapes when we were there in the late 90's.
Today, materials are applied using techniques offered by modern construction technology. Stone is cut using computer controlled systems, as are the wooden or metal, even polyester, fibreglass or polystyrene, frames and shuttering used for reinforced concrete.

"Perry Mason" Erle Stanley Gardnerʻs fictional lawyer with investigative skills

Perrysport

was until 2017 the name of the shops in the Netherlands of
JD Sports, a trainer and sports fashion retailer in the UK

Eddie Joost old time Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Athletics, Boston Red Sox infielder; briefly manager of the Aʻs, and for a few years owned a sporting good store in Boston.

Boston Common Softball Field

"The Soccer* Field", Woburn, MA

*name used by the Woburn Times for a softball (!) field,
an extension of the high school baseball fieldʻs fenceless outfield. Whenever soccer was played on it must have been before 1943 when I first saw (menʻs) softball played there.

Manchester United

Manchester City

manchester, the textile, Corduroy

parachute cord

mountaineering

Hannibal, Alistair Crowley, Sir Edmund Hilary - - famous* mountaineers

*Well, Crowley was more notorious than famous - notorious, though, NOT for his mountaineering.

Elephants

(i only react on the first one)

"How the Elephant got his Trunk" by Rudyard Kipling (in Just So Stories)

How the (European) goldfinch got his colors.

The story:
When the birds were created they all were white, they had to be painted by the angels.
The angels stood in a row, each with a paint can. Most birds wanted to be colored and flew by the angels. The hummingbirds and parakeets went for green, blue, purple and red, the bluebird for blue, the tanager and robin for red or orange, the crow and blackbird for black, the yellow cardinal and canary for yellow.. One finch was curious and playful, he wasn't in a hurry to get his colors, he flew around to discover the world: shrubs the leaves, berries, seeds and sandy mud. So this far he only had white and muddy brown on his feathers.
Until the moment he looked around and saw that the other birds had such a beautiful colors. He hurried to the angels, but most of the paint was used. No purple nor orange was left. The angel with the black had one inch of paint on the bottom, the goldfinch got some brushstrokes, The amount of yellow was even smaller: just two patches for the wings. For the rest: there were only some drops of red left. Therefore the goldfinch wanted them on his head. And so it happened.
The mud stayed, the goldfinch always flew quickly from hither to tither and in the sun the mud with all the colors looked so bright that the people called his appearance gold.

Top That!ʻs Colors (Magnetic Play and Learn)

Letters from Iceland
by W. H. Auden and Louis Macneice

alphabet soup

rimmed soup plate

I put the letters on the rim of the plate to form words

soup kitchens

long rows

Longs Pharmacies and general stores

Lungs

Long (D) = Lung (E)

// lungs //

Stella Sandsʻs Kids Discover Lungs

Eureka

Archimedes of Syracuse.
discoverer of the Law of Hydrostatics (re: displacement/weight). (d. 212 B.C.). He traditionally left his bath without dressing and went outside shouting (158).

Mathematics

E. T. Bellʻs "Men of Mathematics (Touchstone Book)"

Monument Men

Atlantis

Solon as described (or was he fictionalized?) by Plato in an Egypto-Athenian myth of the 4th century B. C.

so long

The monarchical administrations of Louis XIV (France) and Elizabeth II (U.K.).

The French/English Stephen of Blois and Matilda (Maud) of Boulogne
King and Queen of England, Count of Boulogne and Duke of Normandy, during the second quarter of the 12th century.

Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne = "The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne" (1945 Film)
by Robert Bresson

There is nothing that you can name
That is anything like a dame.

Mitzi Gaynor and Ezio Pinza

Gloria Gaynor

I Will Survive

a party in a wooden beach restaurant

parrot heads

pirate hat

LTʻs "Talk like a Pirate Day"

Long John Silver

John Silber long-term Texan president
of Boston University, late 20th, early 21st centuries; he made a gubernatorial run
in Massachusetts, defeating powerful attorney general John Belloti in the Democratic primary, but losing to
moderate Republican William Weld in November.

Frankie Silver local murderess

Phil Silvers Movie, TV comedian,
1940s-50s.

Tom Manders, 'Dorus', Dutch comedian, singer in the fifties,
Best known by his song 'Twee Motten ' = Two Moths

There are two moths in my old coat
And those two moths just are there since some days
One is just perplexed seeing that early happiness
He eats whole my coat, only for her, that cutie of a moth
I call her Charlotte, and I call him Bas
Those cuties of moths, in my old coat

Manderley

revived Celtic language

One hundred thousand Welcomes*

*English of 188

Hans Habeʻs* A Thousand shall Fall

*pen name of Jean Bekessy

One thousand White Women

Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Carolyn Wrightʻs "From a White Womanʻs
Journal"

Wright Brothers

"Heavier than Air" flight

Heavy Water
(water with molecules that contain extra neutrons)

Watership Down

Martin Amisʻs "Heavy Water and other Stories

He's not Heavy, He's my Brother

"Am I my brotherʻs ʻkeeperʻ?" --(Cain, in Genesis)

Sholem Aschʻs "East River"

East of the Sun, West of the Moon

Het Beste sprookjesboek = my fairy tale book by Readers Digest

"Go west, young man!" -- classic Horace Greeley quote.

Go West - Village People

"The West is the best!"
--what West Watertown, MA kids used to say to East Watertowners, 1940s. (Not recommending, just citing).

West with the Night

Leiberʻs "Night of the Long Knives"

coup

Augusto Pinochet Ugarteʻs seizure of Chile
on 9/11 (1973)

junta

Amnesty Internationalʻs "The Military Junta... Trial, 1985" (Argentina)

Doctors Without Borders

The Flying Doctors TV-series

Doctor Who

Blue police phone booth

aka Tardis

"Blue Meanies"
name for police,mentioned in A "Beatles" film of the 1960s.

Kind of Blue made famous by Miles Davis

"This is MY KIND of team!" Classic remark by Leo Durocher, early 1950s, when he unloaded some sluggers off a topheavy roster and created a more balanced New York Giants team. And did, in fact, win two pennants and one world series -- the second and third-and--last pennants of his long career.

The Kindness of Strangers

Strangers: Fictional characters of
Albert Camus and, to go from the sublime to the mediocre*, Harlan Coban.

*"mediocre" b t w, in my vocabulary, isnʻt a highfalutin synonym for "no good"; it means something like "fair", "average".

Stranglers

>224 rolandperkins: *same here, like the word 'ordinary'

Gerold Frankʻs "The Boston Strangler"

nylon stockings

(not my own association, but words that stood out at the WP-page)

"Trade Wars"*

*Some economic historians believe that the U.S.ʻs
economic trend toward nylon in preference to silk was what
brought Japan into the Pacific phase of World War II. As a major cause, I doubt it.

Economic sanctions
e.g. to South Africa in times of the official Apartheid rules

You are wrong, Father Huddleston and Why
Cry, Beloved Country? very forgettable "replies" to
Huddlestonʻʻs and Patonʻs anti-apartheid classics

Tom Hiddleston

The Avengers

Steve Ditkoʻs Avenging World

Emma Peel

Jane Austenʻs classic Emma

Emma van Waldeck-Pyrmont
Queen consort of The Netherlands and regent in the 1890's. Several streets and lanes in The Hague were named after her.
(Waldeck-Pyrmontkade, Emmakade, Koningin Emmaplein, Emmapark, Emmastraat, Adelheidsstraat, Wilhelminastraat, Theresiastraat, Regentesselaan, Regentesseplein, Regentessekwartier.)

Emma Watson actress

(see 114 ), running around in circles

circle the wagons

"May the Circle be unbroken . . ."; song

Johnny Cash
(to make another loop)

Mother Maybelle Carter*

*mother-in-law of 242.

Beautiful May

(belle =Beautiful in French)

Mae West

"Goodness had nothing to do with it!" >
"Goodness had EVERYTHING to do with it!"

--classic Mae West quotation-- and the revision of it by her funeral (Presbyterian) eulogist, which became the headline of an obituary

censorship

For a while, 247 was the fate of the memorable* Ulysses by James Joyce, and of the more forgettable* Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller.

* i m o, anyway

Arts Under Threat

Banned Books Week

Dutch Book Week present

Yearly in March we have the National Book Week. Everyone who spent about 15 dollar on Dutch books get a special novella of 129 pages, written by a for that year chosen Dutch or Flemish Writer.
A bonus is that everyone who owns that 'boekenweekgeschenk' can travel by train at the last Sunday of that week for free!

Dutch treat

Dutch admiral

rear admiral

Thrums window

Ik zie, ik zie wat jij niet ziet vijftig verhalen (I Spy, fifty stories)

Also someone who is only connected with the world by a window

Isabelle Lawrenceʻs "A Spy in Williamsburg"

De WillemsBRUG



(Williamsbridge in Rotterdam, picture by Ilya Korzelius)

William of Orange

Willem of Orange vs. James I of England and Ireland# -- The Battle of the Boyne*

#also James VI of Scotland

*(Must have been a bridge there too, as it was on an Irish river.)

Mill Town

Lowell, MA,* Lawrence, MA, Saco, ME
and Biddeford, ME
mill towns of Northern New England, U. S. A.

*native town of the great Jack Kerouac,
where he was buried i 1969

Deindustrialization

//And Robert Frost from Lawrence//

North of Boston early work which helped to make Robert Frost* famous

*Frost once said that he might live 3,000 miles WEST of Boston, but he always lived NORTH of Boston. (He did live in San Francisco).

Portsmouth, NH

Which is north of Boston

Concord, NH: farther to the North of Boston;
NHʻs capital, (But far from being its largest city)

Jeff Grubʻs Brave New Planes Variant Planes in your

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)*

*The world lost Huxley, the same weekend of 11/63 that it lost John F. Kennedy and C. S. Lewis.

Stefan Heymʻs "China Shakes the World Again"

Sheik Yerbouti (Zappa)

Otto Karalyiʻs "Introducing Modern Music"

Experimental diversity

Martin Keenʻs "The How and Why Wonder Book of Science Experiments"

Chemistry Sets

James B, Conant and J. Robert Oppenheimer
chemists who became ffamous in another field --
Education and then post-war diplomacy in Conant's case,
nuclear physics in Oppenheimer's.

Manhattan Project

Brooklyn, Queene, The Bronx}
Staten Island: Co-boroughs of Manhattan

Coney Island

Coney Island hot dogs

Double topped sandwich

double decker bus

red

Sinclair Lewis sometimes called "Red" Lewis

novelist , Nobel Prize laureate -- about a 1/4 century before
his death .

Lee Pulaski's "Creampuff of the County"

Hufflepuff, a house at Hogwarts (Harry Potter's school)

A House for Mister Biswas by the late V.S. Naipaul ---R I P

Trinidad

Trinitarians vs. Unitarians (Theology)

pastafarians see the Happy Heathens for an explanation

"Paganism inculcated a -- er-- kindly attitude toward your neighbor," --Sterling Dow,
Harvard professor of Classics, ca. 1950;
in an unpublished lecture (quoted from memory, perhaps not his exact words, but the gist.)

Winter Solstice

Dark Days before Christmas

Gerald Warner Braceʻs* "Winter Solstice" a gloomy and yet hopeful New England novel in which the solstice symbolizes an annual nadir in oneʻs personal life.

*Knew author.

Nadir, an Arabian Name

Zenith

Lilith

Eve

Maria

Elizabeth, of the New Testament, cousin of Mary (Maria)

feeling a fetus in the womb

"A Japanese chlld is (counted as) one
year old on the day it is born."
Donʻt remember where I read this, decades ago; possibly in Robert Ripley, so I donʻt know if this is still the Japanese usage.

Hello Kitty

Kitty Wells great country-and-western composer, singer.

Orson Wells

Wells Fargo

"Fargo" (Film)

far gone

"Far Down"*

*My grandmother, Celia Houghton Mallon (ca. 1879-1957)
said that Northern Ireland is,used to be called "The
Far Down"

down under

man at play

playboy

playbook

Sliver Cloud

splinter

Third Party

fifth wheel

fifth of whiskey

Fourth of July

Fourteenth of July*

*aka "Bastille Day"

// aha, quatorze juillet //

Juliette

Julius Caesar

Calendar

Gregorian Calendar

Georgian Doors

The Doors

Prayer Doors*

*as in Emilie Griffin's Doors into Prayer

prayer rug

rug merchant

Children selling toys on a rug in the streets at Kings day: Vrijmarkt

rug bug*

*as in Joanna Cole's "Bug in a Rug: Reading Fun for just Beginners"

love bug

lovebird

love child

Love Child by the Supremes

Child 44

duelly

bivalves

the shore

beach bunny

Pamela Anderson

Sherwood Anderson

Wes Studi

Wes Ferrell

Pharrell Williams

Ted Williams

>356 rolandperkins: >358 rolandperkins: 2019 Mm.. not their best season till now... :(

I didn't know him but now I'll say:

hitter

"hitter"

No: pitcher (1930s); though of the pre-DH
era, so I suppose he did some hitting, but okay
for a game entry.

// >360 rolandperkins: wiki says: 'Williams is regarded as one of the greatest hitters in baseball history'.. is that wrong? Sure you do know 99% more than I do about//

Williams is regarded as one of the greatest hitters in
baseball. Is that wrong?

Not: it's correct. The only argument is whether Ted
was ONLY "one of greatest", or "THE greatest'/

Esther Williams

Double U Double U

Earl Webb Boston Red Sox infielder, 1930s. For decades*he
held the ML record for the most DOUBLES in one season.

*I suppose he has been surpassed by now, but I haven't yet
looked up who, if anyone, beat his record

// *no, still: 67 Earl Webb Boston Red Sox 1931 current. (wiki) //

Earl Frederick "Spider" Balfour
(January 4, 1933 – April 27, 2018) was an American National Hockey League forward from 1952 to 1961.

(more searching than association...)

David Balfour of Kidnapped fame

" . . .Still Earl Webb . . .1931 (36624-367)

Thanks, ems_24. (Hmm; I knew he was a little before I was a fan:
1931's my birth year.)

Balfour Castle

There are two with the same name in Scotland as well.

Ice Castle

Ice Palace*

*by Edna Ferber

Nickname of our central municipal library/cityhall _ designed by Richard Meier (born 1934) an American abstract artist and architect. He also designed parts of the interior. The shelves had to be white too.

Our Municipal Reference and Record Center (MRRC), City & County
of Honolulu -- my place of employment, 1975-1979; sorry I haven't
got a picture. It moved from City Hall, Honolulu capial district,
to its own building, a neighboring one, in 1975.

Municipality- a Kipling poem about a rogue elephant.

>374 rolandperkins: This one? Quiet an other ambiance than here :) Pleasant.

elephant walk

"THIS one (MRRC?)

Correct! (Wheredja get it?) Not really a historic building: Before
being a City & County department, it was a Sunday School.

>380 rolandperkins: No, I haven't been in Hawaii ;) . That's almost the literally other side of the planet for me.
Google: 'Municipal Reference and Record Center (MRRC), City & County of Honolulu', (and maybe > images )

"I haven't been to Hawai'i . . ." (380-381)

Sorry to hear it. But there's always the rest of your life.
Best Wishes.

playing from >379 EMS_24:

Happy Feet

foot massage

foot reflex therapy

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