According to the
Washington Post, the US's first political
mass-media stunt was during the Whig campaign for William Henry Harrison in
1840. During it: "They constructed a 10-foot-high ball of twine, wood and tin,
covered it with Whig political slogans, and rolled it first from Cleveland to
Columbus and then from town to town across the country."
What for four-word expression resulted from
this?
Etymology, Etymology, and more Etymology
as well as grammar, usage, euphemism, slang, jargon, semantics (meaning), linguistics, neologism, idiom, word origin, syntax, dialect, lexicon (vocabulary), diction, pidgin, synonym, antonym, homonym, cant, argot, lingo, and redundancy.
The critically-acclaimed board game
MooT
consists of tough questions about the nuances of the English language.
Answer:
Keep the ball rolling
Quoted from the Washington Post: "Consider, for example, the first
'modern' political campaign - the Whig campaign for William Henry Harrison in
1840.
Apart from some success as an
Indian killer, Harrison had minimal credentials, but the Whigs figured out how
to use the tremendous organizational apparatus of their party to promote
him.
They fabricated the image of
Harrison as the 'log cabin and hard cider' candidate, despite his more
patrician roots, and used the party organization to enforce discipline around
the fabrication - to get everyone to say the same thing at the same
time.
In America's first political mass
media stunt, they constructed a 10-foot-high ball of twine, wood and tin,
covered it with Whig political slogans, and rolled it first from Cleveland to
Columbus and then from town to town across the country (hence the expression
'Keep the ball rolling')."
Please note that these are draft questions for the board game MooT.
If you spot an error or disagree with anything I've said here,
please let me know and I'll fix it.
(the Mootguy)
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