英语词汇old lady in dubuque的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

old lady in Dubuque. Dubuque, Iowa, is named for its first settler, a French Canadian lead miner named Julien Dubuque. But what about that famous symbol of prudery, the little old lady in Dubuque? The phrase seems to have originated in this sense with Harold Ross, when he promised in a prospectus of the New Yorker that his magazine would not be edited for “the old lady in Dubuque.” According to Brendan Gill, in his fasci- nating Here at the New Yorker (1975), Ross may have been in- spired by “Boots” Mulgrew, a former Broadway musical com- edy skit writer forced by drinking and financial problems to retreat from New York to his birthplace. Mulgrew soon after began contributing squibs to a widely read Chicago Tribune column called “A Line o’ Type or Two.” These pieces, describ- ing “the provincial absurdities of Dubuque” were signed with the pseudonym “Old Lady in Dubuque” and Gill suggests that “Ross read them, admired them, and, whether consciously or not, got the old lady in Dubuque fixed in his mind as a natural antagonist.” See also little old ladies in tennis shoes.

词汇	old lady in dubuque
词源	old lady in Dubuque. Dubuque, Iowa, is named for its first settler, a French Canadian lead miner named Julien Dubuque. But what about that famous symbol of prudery, the little old lady in Dubuque? The phrase seems to have originated in this sense with Harold Ross, when he promised in a prospectus of the New Yorker that his magazine would not be edited for “the old lady in Dubuque.” According to Brendan Gill, in his fasci- nating Here at the New Yorker (1975), Ross may have been in- spired by “Boots” Mulgrew, a former Broadway musical com- edy skit writer forced by drinking and financial problems to retreat from New York to his birthplace. Mulgrew soon after began contributing squibs to a widely read Chicago Tribune column called “A Line o’ Type or Two.” These pieces, describ- ing “the provincial absurdities of Dubuque” were signed with the pseudonym “Old Lady in Dubuque” and Gill suggests that “Ross read them, admired them, and, whether consciously or not, got the old lady in Dubuque fixed in his mind as a natural antagonist.” See also little old ladies in tennis shoes.
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