EP299: Origin of the Phrase "In a Nutshell" as well as other Everyday Sayings, The Woman Who Sneaked Into George Washington's Army and The Dignity of the Individual Human Being

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Someone just tell me in a nutshell it said to originate from the ancient story described in 17 ID by the Ryman skull apply need the elder story goes that the philosopher Cicero I witnessed a copy of Homer's epic poem deleted written on a piece of parchment enclosed into the shallow. Obviously, this is impossible, but it is believed that important documents were filed and inserted into walnut shells and bound so that I waterproofing could be taken long distances without damaging them.

Shakespeare referred the expression any 60 night free play Hamlet that immortalize the expression in a shambles means a state of complete disorder will ruin it draws in the open inmate sellers of medieval times the word shambles draws from the old English word meaning footstool which came from the Latin word meaning small bench. Most towns of that time in England had streets designated to a single type of vendor the streets with grosses streets were bred sellers which is a werewolf and they way is from streetside workbenches.

They streets.

Winona shambles. But it was the brooches became particularly associated with as I was applied directly by the slaughterhouses. The meat shambles were renowned for being a complete mess of blotted off cops by the floating hundreds. The word shambles have become synonymous with Gen. Mason disorder in the town of York, England to the sky has a street called shambles in cold blood means deliberately without emotion is often related to badges. For example, leave the man in cold blood.

It's an expression, the dates of the early 18th century began with the belief that a person's blood heated up when an act of great emotional passion was committed. This is based on the reddening of the FISA and the feeling of the person experienced.

It was thought that when one could carry out a violent crime without excitement or emotional involvement. The person was acting in cold blood. The term was first used in English publication. The spectator in 1711. Deciding something using the bag means a successful outcome is absolutely certain whether different theories on the origins of fries, including those relating to bicycle and hunting the early days of the British Parliament is the likely birthplace on the back of the speaker's chair in Parliament on a velvet bag hello successful petitions that were brought before the House of Commons would be placed in that bag because it was known that all such petitions have been successful. They became known as in the bag. If you say to someone on in the doghouse, it usually means your disgraced and out-of-favor usually said by husband to wife in the doghouse is a phrase that is literally origins it draws from JM Barrie's 1904 book Peter Pan. Mr. Dowling, the children's father in the book is particularly unpleasant, and that of the family dog teacher will then fly off with Peter Pan and is a self-imposed punishment for his behavior. He goes out to leave the doghouse until the children returned from Neverland Peter Pan was always a very popular book. As a result expression quickly came into widespread usage. If you say in the doldrums or you feeling in the doldrums. It means to feel unmotivated or depressed and it relates to a region by that name, which is located slightly north of the equator between two belts of wind silos use the time because wounds they met and neutralize each other, which resulted in ships becoming stranded and sitting around. Oddly, virtually unable to smile many assuring that the expression comes from the name of the region, but it's actually the region came to be named because of its nature. Doldrums comes from the old English word doll remaining doll and that led onto the web, don't drum and the phrase was then used in the figurative sense of the early 19th century in the group is an expression which means to function perfectly with little effort stems from the only viable workable dies. Records made with a number of grooves cut into the material where the music is recorded directly as Playboy stylus on the which will sit neatly in the group to ensure good sound quality stylus is making stick to water will not sit in the groove of the sample become distorted equally if the wreck was scratched stylus may slip out of the groove in the record.

One play the phrase to call its idiomatic use. With the arrival of jazz in the 1920s. The free-spirited nature of jazz bands and why they play with each other lead people to describe them is in the groove in the limelight means at the center of attention. You may say John loves being in the limelight. This is one of the very first phrase I have a lot. It has its origins in the theater when counseling oxide more commonly known as Lyme is heated it produces an intense white light in this process was first used effect by a man named Thomas Drummond in the 1920s the Scottish Army engineer used heated lime as a night in the mapmaking because of the bright light was visible at a distance. The technique was and adopted in theaters to illuminate the sky. It was first used in Covent Garden, London in 1937. The actors who were the center of attention on the stage was said to be standing in the limelight on that site now applies to anyone who is the focus of attention. If you say something is in the offing. You mean it is likely to happen sooner as a minute nautical expression originating in the early 1600s, the kind of widespread usage by the late 1700s, the offing is that part of the sea, that is visible from all the sure the area between the shore on the horizon. In other words, a ship that was in the offing was within sight and a special thanks to Greg Hagler for the production on the piece. Special thanks to Andrew Thompson, hair of the dog to paint the town red. The curious origins of everyday sayings and fun phrases go to Amazon.com or any of the usual suspects story of the English language, or at least it's curious sayings and phrases here on our American story of the great American stories we tell and love America like we do for asking you to become a part of the All-American stories family. If you agree that America is a good and great country. Please make a donation monthly gift of $17.76 is fast becoming a favorite option for supporters to allow American stories.com now and go to the donate button and help us keep the great American stories coming to our American stories.com. Millions will make Medicare coverage decisions for next year and United healthcare can help you feel confident about your choices for those eligible Medicare annual enrollment runs from October 15 through December 7. If you're working past age 65. You might be able to delay Medicare enrollment. Depending on your employer coverage.

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Let's ride and we continue with our American stories. Deborah Samson became a hero of the American Revolution when she disguised herself as a man enjoying the patriot forces you to tell the stories the author of Deborah Samson, the girl who went. I am Marilyn Gilbert.

Can a chat and I going to be telling the story of Deborah Samson. I was on the Internet some years ago and was looking and talking about a woman who fought in the Revolutionary war successfully disguised as a man.

This takes my interest because there were definite rules against this, they can be flogged, jailed, or that out of the church any manner or thing that made me want to go to the work and trouble of writing about her was her extraordinary courage and her amazing patriotic zeal that she thought to be one among those who tried to pass and succeeded without being discovered. She was born in 1760 in Plimpton Massachusetts and her family came over on the Mayflower that at five years.

Father deserves the family and she sent to work. My mother's cousin is a made a Caesar made 280 year old widow Thatcher at 10.

He is sent to work for the Thomas family as an indentured servant.

Although she bagged them continually to let her go to school, they would not let her go to school so she taught herself to read and write in the loft at night and also see in the meantime, was becoming a teacher and a weaver then Middleborough gets word of the Boston tea party, the English attacked the people of Boston and jailed them and for dumping the tea in the harbor. Deborah and Mr. Thomas go to Boston with food for the American and that experience helped her know that she wanted to be a soldier one night, she dresses as a man and goes to enlist. It's almost successful when someone discovers overseas her felon finger his finger that only weavers have the thread rubbing against their certain finger and a man shouts that a woman she has a felon finger. She in the meantime has woven so many pairs of men's suits and clothing that she simply puts on late at night, a man suit and gathers some other things that she might need because she is going to try to find the recruiter for George Washington's army. She walks quite some distance before she finds the recruiter and so she stays in barns during the day to keep out of sight.

She does find a recruiter and see analysts as Robert Shurtleff. She's given a uniform and she marches this dreadful weather very, very cold weather unit from Boston to New York City and joins the light infantry 1782 at West Point and as we speak.

There is a plaque on the wall for her at West Point.

She would like to be away from the other man is not just for fear of discovery and so she volunteered as a scout but once found out having volunteered as a scout, and on horseback rated an enemy hand house she's making her get away is wounded in the leg.

She hides in a cave and using her knife some brandy and water from a nearby stream works on the wound. Though it is never properly healed and in time she walks until she can rejoin her unit. Gen. Patterson chose her to be his orderly now. This involves shaving his face and helping his family.

This is an honor and she also was given a room of her own cell that helps subside. Her fear of being found out. Then there is the rebellion in Philadelphia from some of the troops there, and the general needs to go and he wants Deborah to go with him self while they are there. He sends her out on several errands and policies out. She faints files over and loses consciousness. She's picked up off the street and taken to a hospital.

Dr. Benet comes to her and she begs him not to turn her in because he has discovered she is female Dr. Benet helps her when an honorable discharge before she's discharged from the Army general is very upset and asks her why did you do this meaning. Why did you enlist as a woman and she said so I can see the world and serve my country.

Other men who had faked their identity and gotten into the Army were severely punished, but the general said he would not punish her and he thought so much of her bed.

He said she could no longer continue to be in the Army, so he had her turn in her uniform and gave her a pink dress and pink shoes and hat to wear. So when she gets home. Now I will have anything to do with her, not her mother, not the church. Not anyone, but she works as a farmhand on different farms and then one day, a handsome man on a great beautiful stallion rides up at her your and asks her if she would like to go riding in time, they marry and Deborah bears three children in five years that the farm does not produce poor soil and Benjamin is EL and cannot work any longer and her leg wound still bothers her.

She petitions the government for backpay as a soldier for serving in the revolution. The government is paying soldiers backpay but not to her.

She decides that she's can't wait any longer and she goes in uniform and as the manual of arms. She becomes the first American woman to go on a paid public lecture tour then to her delight. Always fear had picked up her money and Boston because he wrote a letter about her for $96 with a Fortune and brought it back to her and his saddlebags for her payments to continue until her death. She died in 1827 and 67 years and share in Massachusetts and World War II. A liberty ship launched the Deborah Jeanette is her husband's name and Deborah's reapplication and struggle for a military pension was on America's first Freedom train and songs and poems have honored, including one by the Fort Worth Texas boys choir.

Her name is on a plaque at the US national Cemetery song of Deborah was signing for women veterans at a memorial service and special thanks to Greg Engler on the production. Special thanks to all for Marilyn Kubicek, author of Deborah Simpson, the girl who went to war and one a movie this would be a heck of a story that seen at the doctor's office were she's just hoping against hope the Dr. Turner in and he does all she wanted to do was do with the boys do and that is see the world and serve her country story of the woman went to war on our American stories. Millions will make Medicare coverage decisions for next year and United healthcare can help you feel confident about your choices for those eligible Medicare annual enrollment runs from October 15 through December 7. If you're working past age 65. You might be able to delay Medicare enrollment. Depending on your employer coverage. It can seem confusing, but it doesn't have to be this@uhcmedicarehealthplans.com to learn more United healthcare helping people live healthier lives doing household chores can Artie be time-consuming and tedious. There's nothing more daunting than facing piles and piles of laundry that need to be done can be overwhelming for anyone.

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Let's ride then we continue here on our American stories. We love to tell stories about businesses and business owners are particularly family-owned businesses that start small and grow the American dream folks and it's still alive. No matter what folks say this next story is the story of Christopher Don you and his family business of business. His father founded called federated investors the company handles over $459 billion in customer assets. Let's go to Chris Donahue, Chairman, federated investors. Dad was one of 54 sisters long was one of the girls and dad went to West Point graduate class XLVI and then was in the strategic here.

Here in Roswell New Mexico where I was the atomic weapon to you. To their 29 one the right. So they had to create air to air refueling all sorts of the stories is his job description West Point was to fly the atomic bomb from Roswell over the Aleutian Islands get refueled rocketing central Russia were the reason he's rebuilding their ball and you saw this this fishing trip from Lucian Kubicek that he said yeah somebody asked the CO that one time and he said gentlemen don't forget the turkey is a friendly power. I know about you that that's one piece which subjects so one way trip was job description as I look at it nation. That's a pretty good guy on the deer in pile committee and know all the circuitry arm the weapon at all. He spent I think $48 with Beckman's mutual fund investment correspondence course from and became totally enamored of it begin to teach it to others at Maxwell Air Force Base and then when he came back here, the mutual fund business was going to be a great business, whereupon he got his buddies from high school Dick Fisher was selling cars Cadillac dealer in East liberty and Tom Donnelly lawyer, not Michigan.

They put together a firm to offer mutual funds, which they thought was a great concept and still is because you get professional management and diversification all at a reasonable cost to regular investor and putting money in pools is still a big big big deal today and so they started that in the 50s and then by 55 form federated investors, Inc. interestingly enough, the three founding fathers had 27 children among them over 100 grand children now hundred and 3540 great-grandchildren. The comment was always that they had a create more funds in order to feed the growing group that's about how it all happened, and hence the moniker of faith, family and federated.

That's how my dad put it. That's how I put it. Mother said that often times it was federated faith and family. So these modest disputations notwithstanding these were important ingredients, family, faith, while I was in law school.

Pit work half-time at my uncle's law office, which my grandfather's halftime federated and was deciding back and forth with then CFO Ed Gonzales said will what your uncle is offering X will thousand dollars more than X well we graduated law school. We already had four children. By the time cards so a few thousand more was a big deal and he gave me another speech on the opportunities it federated that I have glazed over the other concept and then I never look back. I think I was 30 system something like that coming here was a great decision. I did have to make all that many. Back then you were thinking about will do this do that, you're off. It was just keep your head down and keep going, which in many ways is a lot easier then all the opportunities the young people have today is a huge difference that can't be quantified between founding fathers and subsequent managers when it takes to be a founding father is completely different and dedication the numbers of years of or we can make it. Are we not, but it does put in spots that are very important.

Like survival really counts and owner operators think about survival is a very important thing so it is so much following in the footsteps because the marketplace that we deal with changes so much. There is no following in the footsteps there is maintaining the culture and enhancing the culture but the footsteps are what you can really deal with at this point, so it isn't that much of burden. I don't feel as a burden or Hollister because you can never equal that which the founding fathers did you do the best you can with the crew you got proceed along and that's weight is one of the themes my dad had weave Through the company into these things is the dignity of the individual human being. They did have an employee handbook 50s and 60s was always well, you get to paint your own picture yourself to stay on the campus and paint your own picture is a very strong enabling concept. It respects the dignity and talent of the individual says you can decide how to arrange the colors.

Someone else in the company is paying another picture, and he may have a right suggest Meridian picture but the person with the brush has the ultimate sink Jeff stay on the canvas which means you can't go on another guys canvas, but it also shows there's a lot of creativity and that comes out of view of human will get it right all the time of their imperfection, but it is that dignity of the human person who pervades this organization and then sets the stage for how you look at people how you look at things and how you conduct yourself in the community and when we come back we continue with Chris Donahue was the chairman of federated investors and this is a family story if ever there was one.

My goodness three founders 27 children, 100+ grandchildren.

That's quite an achievement by itself and they had to create more funds to feed the growing brood was the thinking over in the family and the Donnie family and the other founders.

My goodness, what a lot of mouths to feed a lot of responsibility and that theme the dignity of the individual human being and how they were able to keep the quality of the culture. Even as the industry changed from day to day and from year to year when we come back more of the story of federated investors more Chris Donahue story this family story here on our American stores suit millions will make Medicare coverage decisions for next year and United healthcare can help you feel confident about your choices for those eligible Medicare annual enrollment runs from October 15 through December 7. If you're working past age 65. You might be able to delay Medicare enrollment. Depending on your employer coverage. It can seem confusing, but it doesn't have to be this UHC Medicare health plans.com to learn more United healthcare helping people live healthier lives doing household chores can Artie be time-consuming and tedious.

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The next time the whole family gets home from long vacation or you get the kids back from summer camp or whatever the situation as that's cause this big pile of dirty clothes is not all three clear maggot packs purchase all three clear mega packs today and conquer any laundry load for all fabric types so you're in the garage working on your car and you need the valves about last week.

You look in the cabinets and on the shelves, but the parts are never in the right place eBay motor says the car parts you need over 122 million of them all in one place and all at the right prices find parts for everything from your classic coupe to your brand-new truck@ebay.com. Let's ride and we returned our American stories we heard earlier about how federated investors is run the company. Now it's time to hear how the family is run. Let's get back to the story of Chris Donnie the deepest sense of fulfillment probably comes out of the family meeting just last week I was holding the triplets born to my niece there identical boys. This is a one and 200 million shot there. What four weeks old so this is incomparable Chris and Anna been blessed with 38 of our own grandchildren, 38 are and you can only have gratitude with each one of the other things we try to do is teaches kids fishing way to teach kids fishing is to teach and catching and I assure you, you get more pleasure of a grandchild catching you ever got fishing or catching family needs protected strengthen its where the basic teaching of everything occurs. Read any study and by the time the child is five or six. They got most of their stuff figured mostly whether they are loved and this is very important to take the other formation as well so it is in effect a domestic church and the mom and dad have the duties of that and I think it's just a critical ingredient to society. One of the things he's doing the family was family dinner. Remember those and we basically had the attitude any question can come up and so one day I sent in seventh grade. This pinpoints his hate was that stuff Bill Clinton doing a violation of your marriage promise this is kind of annoying because it means you're talking about means they know what they're doing and see if means are discussing whether this is really a violation with this really frosted. We handled it in a nice way and so what really happens is the kids learn they can ask anything that actually learn the truth of the matter.

They are little bit about fidelity, which is a big plus. Now that kid has wife, five children in this proceeding along and I presume he is forming his kids in a similar fashion that had nine dogs. So he wants of all married up nice and proper to his rule was the guy the second time, unless you're convinced to be a good he never enforced, so I didn't think much of an long way you talk to different people, some having a tough divorce when I'm your sister really good proper brothers.

They were really good to bring it just enough that you could beat all the sports, don't forget that in any ventilator that got rejected and yet with that had this rule but I didn't think much of his no one ever told me so I go back to my father. I say force that will repeat that's as good as you can do. So I went right back five dollars*land rule on them and it really came home one time when one of the girls just been dumped by her boyfriend and right, not to say positive people walking on the street she's in tears walking and she's is no really good.

I forgot to add that I told him they didn't have to follow Randy's as we called my dad that if you didn't follow that. I picked the husband and so this objective that the most.

Then says have a tough time in. I'm really glad you said that because I know you take care be protected because that's what happened, but that's a full cycle on on that kind of thing so it was one that I sort of knew because I heard but I didn't believe it and if I tell them exactly this rule that don't love the second time Lesher convinced the husband and father. I've added and help you get to heaven okay. Then one day somebody says wait a second here for sense what he said.

He said he ever said anything to the force that would set up all you guys you do is try to find the closest girl. You can find it's like your mother and I can improve on that. So I'm not sending this is wisdom beyond the ages. Those are take-home value thing is to anybody in my I had kind of a hard-nosed type `approach, which I always enjoyed punishments for worthy if they did make the bed mattress everything off close the door knob problem, stuff like that and some of the publishers need a certain amount of remuneration communication Family Court Family Court was a deal where if you got a punishment. You have the right to go to Family Court and get it changed and it was truly empowered to change the punishment or if there was a disputation between two siblings. They could go to Family Court and Family Court consisted of you could have a judge single judge and would be anybody in the house so when Ann's dad was like he was picked periodically.

He was, he was known as a fair judge and there was one example where one child was in charge the dog and then dedicated to the other child while they went out or something.make a mess on the porch so those responsible there.

Each point the finger.

So they go to Family Court and an stance as well you get the scooper you get the hose and will declare victory and move on that that kind of thing.

There were other cases where we had that if you got a speeding ticket, you would lose your drivers license for semester and reinforce this. This was not an unforced thing because I didn't want dead or maimed kids to see that would be bad for me so it's all about me but nonetheless then they had a chance to go to court and one time one of the daughters went to court, but she didn't take the court seriously because she thought that everybody would roll me but she didn't take the court seriously in the way. Went to court as it were friends in the house. Whoever was here, you declare the court the other side of it agrees. That's the court that's the jury and so she picked the jury. We each made our said you could pick a lawyer if you want to do whatever and the jury. In that case came back and said well instead of a full semester.

You only have two months apparently she was furious, but that was the penalty that was you know put into play.

So as a way to dampen things and then you also got to get it out and it was a foreign forget not that it had to be empowered with real decision-making to make. They learn to get along with each other or have a system for solving things as opposed to a permanent disdain for the which was at school you could have a forward work things out with that we care if you fight between yourselves still have that stuff goes all but if it's within my earshot or site that I'm really upset, and whatever it is you're fighting about is going to be removed so there are several examples of this. The best was the two girls are fighting about Barbie car that happened to fit perfectly in the garbage crusher so they had been warned not to be fine like they were fighting as garbage cargoes, in turn, on makes a great sound and also they realize they have to solve their own problems, intersect, not so good for the Barbie car probably go to jail for this stuff today but nonetheless am telling you the real stuff we did, but it teaches kids their relationship is not the car and they have to learn to solve your own problems.

You just can't go going up to mom and dad and solve the problems you know the bar get a pallet. The bar get no these are other human beings you learned and what a great story. Thanks to Chris Donahue for spending the time with us both on the business and how it's run, and the values that run in shape that business and that the dad and his partner shaped by culture and the culture of the family and the most important unit there is in America is the family unit.

We know we know this deeply. People of faith, Catholics like Chris Donahue deeply understand doing everything they can to preserve the family unit, how society runs without it.

Chris Donahue Donahue family.

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