Fwd: The Big Apple and Other Food You Can't Eat - Frank Stevens - Google Books

[Markekohut]

tootsie was a slang word for a girl from the 19th Century.....

In the book below, Tootsie roll was slang for a teenage African-American dance...

it was written FOR Shirley Temple for the movie Bright Eyes, by
Richard Whiting, inspired by his young daughter, he said, Margaret who became a terrif singer. 

It is interesting to read all around the use of the song and see that all that sugar seemed to imply a sweetly sentimentally safe world, the ship as the world in many metaphoric uses of the song, including one by Doris Lessing in her novel BRIEFING FOR A DESCENT INTO HELL in which her mataphor is that on the ship one ( at least) felt wind and rain.....but where the protagonist was now---deep in depression? ---one could not even feel that....off the good ship so to speak...

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> From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> Date: December 29, 2013, 8:36:42 AM EST
> To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Subject: The Big Apple and Other Food You Can't Eat - Frank Stevens - Google Books
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> http://books.google.com/books?id=u5i5BSW3260C&pg=PA131&dq=%22Tootsie+roll%22+%2B+slang&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RCXAUrjQDKLLsQSahoDgDA&ved=0CD4Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Tootsie%20roll%22%20%2B%20slang&f=false
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