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PROVERB
YOU CAN'T HAVE BUTTER AND A FAT FARM-MAID.
Submitter comment: TOLD BY MOTHER
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; HOLDEN HALL ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 09-00-1967
PROVERB
GOLD SHINES EVEN IN THE DIRT.
Submitter comment: TRANSLATED FROM LITHUANIAN.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; HONORS HOUSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 02-17-1971
THERE ARE NO HOMES WITHOUT SMOKE.
Submitter comment: {TRANSLATED FROM LITHUANIAN}
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; HONORS HOUSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 02-17-1971
MORAL PROVERB (PRIES ADSIAI)
THERE ARE PEOPLE, BUT NO MEN.
Submitter comment:
TRANSLATED FROM LITHUANIAN
NO MEN - INDICATES NO BRAVE OR FEARLESS PEOPLE WHO
ACT LIKE MEN
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; HONORS HOUSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 02-17-1971
MORAL PROVERB (PRIES ADRIAI)
STUPID INTO HIS STOMACH
Submitter comment:
{TRANSLATED FROM LITHUANIAN}
{A PERSON CAN7T BE ANY MORE STUPID THAN BEING
STUPID INTO HIS STOMACH - SUPREME INSULT}
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; HONORS HOUSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 02-17-1971
MORAL PROVERB (PRIES ADSIAI)
SWALLOWING LIKE DOGS
Submitter comment: {TRANSLATED FROM LITHUANIAN}
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; HONORS HOUSE
Keyword(s): ANIMAL
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 02-17-1971
HEAVEN IS FAR FOR THOSE WHOM CHURCH IS CLOSE.
Submitter comment: TRANSLATED FROM LITHUANIAN
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; HONORS HOUSE
Keyword(s): RELIGIOUS OBSERVATION
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 02-17-1971
HE'S REJOICING AS IF HE'D BEEN GIVEN A HORSE.
Data entry tech comment: FOR THE LITHUANIAN TEXT, SEE THE ORIGINAL 5 BY 8 CARD.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; HONORS HOUSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 02-17-1971
MORAL PROVERB N"PRIEZ ADSIAI"E
HE'S WAITING LIKE A GULL FOR THE STORM.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; HONORS HOUSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison |
Date learned: 02-17-1971
PROVERB
FROM A SLIVER OF WOOD, YOU CAN PILE UP A WHOLE WAGON.
Submitter comment: THIS STATEMENT IS CONCERNING GOSSIP. (TRANSLATED FROM LITHUANIAN.)
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; HONORS HOUSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 02-17-1971
PROVERB
FROM A LARGE CLOUD COMES A SMALL RAIN.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; HONORS HOUSE
Keyword(s): CONTRAST
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |
Date learned: 02-17-1971
PROVERBS
THE LAZY MAN WORKS TWICE.
Submitter comment: TRANSLATED FROM LITHUANIAN
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; HONORS HOUSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 02-17-1971
PROVERB
MANY HANDS LIFT A HEAVY LOAD.
Submitter comment: TRANSLATED FROM LITHUANIAN
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; HONORS HOUSE
James Callow Keyword(s): METONYMY ; OBSERVATION
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 02-17-1971
PROVERB
THE LOWER YOU BEND DOWN, THE HIGHER YOU CAN SPRING UP.
Submitter comment: TRANSLATED FROM LITHUANIUN
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; HONORS HOUSE
| Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim |
Date learned: 02-17-1971
MATCHMAKING
IN INDIA A COUPLE IS MATCHED FOR MARRIAGE BY MATCHING THEIR
HOROSCOPES AND MAKING SURE THAT THEIR STARS ARE AGREEABLE.
Where learned: HOME ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; EAST QUAD
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Marriage Parental arrangement of marriage |
Date learned: DATE NOT RECORDED BY COLLECTOR
FIXED FESTIVAL DATE
IN INDIA ON DECEMBER 22 THERE IS THE FEAST OF ST. RAMA.
(ST. RAMA WAS BANISHED FROM HIS HOMETOWN CITY AND
FINALLY RETURNED AFTER FOURTEEN YEARS). THE
CELEBRATION OF HIS RETURN IS CALLED PIWALI OR THE
FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS. DURING THIS FESTIVAL, SMALL
MUD LAMPS ARE LIT SYMBOLIZING THE EARTH'S PURITY;
SWEETS ARE EXCHANGED AMONG FRIENDS; FIRECRACKERS ARE
SET OFF AND THERE IS LOTS OF WINE DRUNK.
Where learned: LIBRARY ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 21 solstice to March 20 |
Date learned: 10-02-1969
NEWBORN BELIEF
WHEN A BABY IS NEWBORN AND AT HOME, IF HE ISN'T BAPTIZED
HE SHOULD SLEEP WITH A LIGHT ON. THIS IS TO KEEP THE
DEVIL AWAY FROM HIM.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; LIFE SCIENCE BUILDING
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Baptism Naming rite |
Date learned: 04-01-1971
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Language
Vocabulary of Prejudiced Group:
During the first moon walk, prejudiced people in Flint would chant "Coon to the Moon."
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs Added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Were they black or white or both?
All were white
sense of "coon to the moon?"
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; SOUTH QUAD ; Watkins, Dallas
Keyword(s): CHANT ; Coon ; FLINT ; Language ; MICHIGAN ; MOON ; Moonwalk ; PREJUDICE ; RACISM ; SLANG ; Space
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula Filter - Mature Content |
Toast
Here's to you, as good as you are,
and here's to me, as bad as I am.
But as good as you are
And as bad as I am,
I'm as good as you are
as bad as I am
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs Added by TRD
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; Moseley, Barbara
Keyword(s): Bad ; DRINK ; Good ; GREETING ; INSULT ; Me ; TOAST ; You
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
CHING, CHANG CHINAMAN,/ SITTING ON A FENCE./ TRYING TO MAKE A DOLLAR/
OUT OF NINETY/EIGHT CENTS./ I LIKE COFFEE,/ I LIKE TEA./ I LIKE THE
BOYS/ AND THE BOYS LIKE ME. (YES, NO, MAYBE SO ETC. UNTIL MISSES.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; ROOM
Keyword(s): CHARACTER ; ENDURANCE ; Jump
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Game Verse Game Verse |
Date learned: 11-23-1968