Ocupation: Author
Life: October 27, 1872 - September 25, 1960
Birthday: October 27
Death: September 25
The fact that slang is apt and forceful makes its use irresistibly tempting. Coarse or profane slang is beside the mark, but "flivver," "taxi," the "movies," "deadly" (meaning dull), "feeling fit," "feeling blue," "grafter," a "fake," "grouch," "hunch" and "right o!" are typical of words that it would make our spoken language stilted to exclude.
source: Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.62, Cosimo, Inc.
topic: Blue, Fake, Feelings, Spoken Language, Slang, Feeling Blue, Grouches