Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ross Clark Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: In Search of Dilworth Faber Date: Fri, 24 May 2024 17:58:38 +1200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 81 Message-ID: Reply-To: r.clark@auckland.ac.nz MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 24 May 2024 07:58:51 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7d850bc996c2b8cc414da742d9635ec2"; logging-data="2322434"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/Odxd9RytsYMMCqsHVGF0Ly87TT0uOZL8=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:XtztZPzFjgF+krBzzQOTRIx6dWE= Content-Language: en-GB X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.eternal-september.org:119 Bytes: 4114 Couldn't help myself. Some more scraps: First a little more detail from Julie Coleman's book: Commentators at the beginning of this period were apologetic or condemnatory; by the end there was no doubt that American English was at least as good as British English, and that attempts were being made to study it methodically. Even American slang was rising in status: After having had his manuscript burned a year ago, Mr. A. Dilworth Faber, at the suggestion of Sir William Craigie, has begun anew the work on his American Slang Dictionary, which he hopes to make the most comprehensive in the field. [footnote: ‘Gossip of the Book World’, Los Angeles Times (14 Mar. 1937), C8. Faber is described as ‘the editor of “The Historical Dictionary of American Slang” ’ in a review he published in the same year (A. Dilworth Faber, ‘Eric Partridge’s Dictionary of Slang’, New York Times (23 May 1937), 99).] Although this dictionary never appeared, several interesting developments were taking place in American slang lexicography, as willbe seen in the following chapters: Dates: (1909-1976) ? https://www.ancientfaces.com/person/dilworth-faber-birth-1909-death-1976/8509366 FABER, DILWORTH was born 15 August 1909, received Social Security number 052-18-7834 (ihttps://sortedbyname.com/letter_f/faber/index_14.htmlndicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died August 1976 https://sortedbyname.com/letter_f/faber/index_14.html Someone who knew him: Brendt Berger (painter): bill, a friend called and asked me if i knew you. my best friend was dilworth faber, nyc street poet. i think he was from shaker heights ohio. extremely proud of his ancestor, virginia patriot, james madison who after writing a large part of the u s ... https://www.facebook.com/diaartfoundation/posts/from-the-archives-bill-and-patti-dilworth-long-time-gallery-attendants-for-walte/159581564090080/?locale=hi_IN [I believe James and Dolly Madison had no children, but JM is now widely believed to have fathered children by slaves. Was Dilworth Faber black?] “Dilworth’s Rib” is a memorial to Berger’s dear friend and poet Dilworth Faber, a street poet also known as the Penny Man. https://www.museumoffriends.org/post/2010-brendt-berger [Actually he signed himself "A.Dilworth Faber" both for the Partridge review and for a 1939 review of a historical cookbook which appeared in the _New Republic_] The Flouring of New England (Review) A. Dilworth Faber [of] The New England Yankee Cook Book, by Imogene B. Wolcott New Republic, October 4, 1939 [Did he ever live in upstate NY?] Property, my paternal grandfather Albert “dilworth” Faber son of Josephine Gutman Faber and William M Faber 11 (Ithaca Journal, 1958) https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-ithaca-journal/52686720/ [If so, he may have had a pipe organ in his home!] Unknown Builder 1830ca. Residence: Dilworth Faber Owego, NY, US https://pipeorgandatabase.org/instruments/633