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Nasby

American  
[naz-bee] / ˈnæz bi /

noun

  1. Petroleum V., pen name of David Ross Locke.


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After the war, one politician claimed that the rebellion had been put down by “the Army, the Navy, and the Nasby Letters.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2020

“I think it’s something Springfield can be very proud of,” Springfield resident Bruce Nasby said.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2017

But both usages were antedated in writings by Carl Schurz in 1871 and Petroleum V. Nasby in 1866.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nasby had a happy and caustic freedom in commenting upon the mail during the performance, not always contemplated, I believe, by the United States postal regulations.

From Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences by Daughters of the American Revolution. Nebraska

For twenty-five years afterward, no critic could furnish a description of me without fetching in Nasby to help out my portrait.

From Chapters from My Autobiography by Mark Twain

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