From: LouisFors <LouisFors@aol.com>
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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 23:41:04 EDT
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Subject: swearing...like...the army in Flanders
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Friends:

I would welcome some help in a reference that I can't associate with anything.
In an article by Judith Pascoe in EDIS Vol. 1, no. 1, there is an article
titled "'The House Encore Me so':  Emily Dickinson and Jenny Lind."  It is
about the time ED heard Jenny Lind and some consequences of the hearing.  My
question comes from an newspaper piece sited in the article-- in The
Springfield Daily Republican, July 1, 1851, describing the day tickets to the
concert were sold.  It begins:

     The crowd was tremendous, the progress slow, the thermometer at 90,
      and the searing (we are sorry to say) somewhat like that of the Army in
      Flanders.

The "Army in Flanders" came as a shock.  I know "In Flanders fields",,.or
however it goes, but that's the wrong war, and far into the future.  "Army in
Flanders fields" is tossed off, however, as something familiar to the readers.
I've checked an enclyclopedia entry on Flanders and discover that is has been
criss-crossed by armies, but I find nothing  that seems relevant.  Webster's
1828 is of no help.  Is it a literary reference?  Anything else?

I know it's not an ED question, but it comes out of a Mass. context, and,
anyway, emwebbers can figure out anything if they can master ED.

Thanks,

Louis Forsdale