Posted by John Nichols on February 06, 2005 at 23:57:50 from 165.91.196.13 user Mcneacail.
In Reply to: Re: grog, rum posted by Ed Kiser on February 05, 2005 at 22:36:52:
Soda in the OED:
The relevant section appears to be and AR should have been aware of the use of soda - but the manufacture of gingerbeer would not use soda-water nor would the handmade lemonade.
JMN
Used for, that dispenses, or containing, soda-water, as soda bottle, -clerk (hence -clerking vbl. n.), -siphon, -straw, tumbler, etc.; soda-counter, the counter of a soda fountain; any counter or bar where soft drinks, ice cream, etc., are sold; soda-fountain (also -font, -fount) orig. U.S., (a) (see quot. 1875); (b) an apparatus for supplying ice-cream sodas, sundaes, etc.; a counter or an establishment of which this is a feature; soda-jerk, -jerker [JERK v.1 7], one who mixes and sells soft drinks, etc., at a soda-fountain; soda-pop, flavoured soda-water.
1824 BYRON Juan XVI. ix, Like a soda bottle when its spray Has sparkled.
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1941 N. COWARD Australia Visited III. 16 That initial contact with the ordinary people [of New York]the soda clerks, the cops, the struggling young theatre people.
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1925 T. DREISER Amer. Tragedy I. II. iii. 180 He had wandered on..dishwashing in a restaurant, soda-clerking in a small outlying drug-store.
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1846 Dollar Newspaper (Philadelphia) 19 Aug. 4/2 He..went up to the soda counter, and ‘reckoned they'd take a little whisky’. 1939 A. HUXLEY After Many a Summer I. x. 135 Virginia was at the soda-counter, pensively eating a chocolate-and-banana split. 1976 J. LEE Ninth Man 31 A customer took a stool at the soda fountain... Dietrich..forced himself to..move..to the soda counter.
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1848 Knickerbocker XXXI. 40 They had not a theatre, nor an oyster-saloon, nor a soda-font. 1848 in N. E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 296 My soda fount cost me in ninety dollars. 1908 Home Herald (Chicago) 13 May, Here is the popular soda-fount drink known as Coca-Cola.
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1824 Independent Chron. (Boston) 9 Oct. 3/3 This luxury in a hot and dusty season, together with an ever-flowing Soda Fountain,..he flatters himself will ensure a continuance of public patronage. 1875 KNIGHT Dict. Mech. 2235/1 Soda-fountain, a vessel for containing soda-water or water charged with carbonic-acid gas under high pressure, and provided with pipes and valves for drawing it off as required. 1876 Napa (California) Reg. 29 July 4/2 A Woodward avenue drug-store hired a new soda-fountain boy the other day. 1918 G. FRANKAU One of Them (1923) II. xv. 108, I loved thy daughters, daintiest as dowdiest; Cadby's tea'd Halls as Fuller's soda-fountain. 1955 R. BLESH Shining Trumpets (ed. 3) x. 232 A New Orleans Rhythm Kings' disc, playing in a soda fountain, gave these schoolboys the incentive. 1977 New Yorker 6 June 50/2 Afterward, at the soda fountain, they went over the day's movies.
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1922 Collier's 17 June 4/1 You can tell a big-league head soda jerk by the way he picks up a glass, but the acid test is what kind of chocolate sirup he can make. 1958 Daily Herald 24 Mar. 3/7 This bustling little man never forgot his early years when he worked as a fairground barber and soda jerk. 1978 J. UPDIKE Coup (1979) iv. 132 The counter-boy, ingloriously dubbed the soda jerk... These ‘soda jerks’, I came to understand, were recruited from the adolescent ranks of the ‘townies’.
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1883 G. W. PECK Groceryman & Peck's Bad Boy 137 A sensitive soda jerker..feels that it is worse than three card monte. 1932 WODEHOUSE Louder & Funnier 48 He..is now a soda-jerker in a small town in Kansas. 1959 N. MAILER Advts. for Myself (1961) 35 The soda jerker..from some outside compulsion had been forced to grow a beard.
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1863 W. WHITMAN Daybks. & Notebks. (1978) III. 655 The continual soda-pop-like burstings of members calling ‘Mr. Speaker! Mr. Speaker!’ 1963 Listener 14 Feb. 301/3 The man who drove the soda-pop lorry. 1977 Time 11 Apr. 5/1 Were a visitor from another planet to read about the saccharin ban, he would conclude that earthlings' basic nutritional needs required large amounts of soda pop, jelly and chewing gum.
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1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 4 July 6/1 (Advt.), Warm Weather Supplies. Ice Cream Pails. Soda Straws. Lily Drinking Cups.
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1911 Ibid. 21 Apr. 6/6 (Advt.), Soda Syphon Holder. This is a handsome silver plated stand into which the syphon fits. 1963 W. SOYINKA Lion & Jewel 24 The foreman..unpacks the usual box of bush comfortssoda siphon, whisky bottle and geometric sandwiches.