No aeroplane. No acid rain.
No Asian crane. No Auburn, Maine.
No Bates's* "...amber waves of grain."
* Katherine Lee Bates composed
"America."
(B)
No ball. (No chain.) No Barbara Bain.*
No brut champagne. No Broca's brain.
No "Buy Bohemian!" campaign.
* Barbara Bain was Martin Landau's
"ball 'n' chain."
(C)
No "Come back, Shane!" No cellophane.
No Courtney Love. No Kurt Cobain.
No coup de main by Charlie Kane.
* Welles's "Citizen" Charles Foster.
(D)
No daisy chain. No "...down de drain."
No Delaplane. No laird's demesne.
No double-duty dado plane.
(E)
No ethnic strain. No East Ukraine.
No Eleanor. No Aquitaine.
No etymology of '-ane.'*
* Suffix with a distinction of sense
(such as ‘humane’ compared with ‘human’)
(F)
No "...fruited plain*..." No Andy Frain.**
No famed first baseman Ferris Fain.***
No frickin' "feminent domain."****
* More from "America": cf Katherine
Lee Bates footnote above.
** America's favorite provider of
ushers for sporting events -- just ask
White Sox first baseman Ferris Fain.
*** Cf. footnote immediately above.
**** A new cultural meme heard
in conjunction with the so-called War
on White Men.
(G)
No gravy train. No G. I. Jane.
No market gain. No Greer, Germaine.
No Gorgeous (George* or Gussie**) reign.
* George Wagner the famous
wrestler.
** Gussie Moran the famous
tennis player.
(H)
No hurricane. No 'him'icane.
No King Hussein. No Jack Haldane.*
No "Hans ♥ hu-u-u-uge hepatic vein."
* J.B.S. Haldane the well-known
geneticist.
(I)
No Ikelos.* (That god's insane!
But, though I know he's inhumane,
I shalt not take Ik's name in vain.)
* Greek god, personification of
nightmares.
(J)
No Dick's sib Jane. No John McCain.*
No gods of Jain. No jug'lar vein.
No jugs of polyurethane.
(K)
No Killer Kane.* No King of Pain.
No Klingon bane. No Ku Klux Klane.
No kilobytes to ascertain.
* Antagonist in the "Buck Rogers"
film serials.
(L)
No Lois Lane. No Lunt-Fontanne.*
No Lowe. No Lerner. No lo mein.
No Lovers' Leap. No Lovers' Lane.
* New York theater honoring famed
acting team of Alfred and Lynn.
(M)
No Mary Jane. No Mark of Cain.
No Marj'rie Main. No "marzipane."
No “Miss'd Miss Marple's Myst'ry Train”...
(Cont'd in a later posting)
