Meaning of middle-nameless | Babel Free

Definitions

Without a middle name.

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Examples

“The Democrats have been hunting for a presidential candidate who has no middle name and have pitched on one Grover Cleveland, of New York. The middle-nameless presidents were George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. But then they had made the other names stand for something.”

“How could Blaine get over Grover’s cunning lack of a middle initial? Tradition was fighting for her life, and she won. What did William Jennings Bryan do against plain William McKinley, or Alton B. Parker against plain Theodore Roosevelt? Now, see what happened when two men with middle initials ran against each other, neither one having a middle-nameless man to elect him. Think over that Hayes and Tilden campaign. What happened to Samuel J. and Rutherford B.? Both were defeated! Both? Of course. Hayes was defeated by the voters and Tilden by the joint high-handed commission. Both were licked, you see, just to show ’em what the fates think of a man with a middle initial.”

“[M]y mom’s mom died when she was just 11 years old and the last of nine kids in a farmhouse in Glencoe, Ont. […] She was given one name only, Lucy, after the nurse who looked after her mom. Guess they used up all the middle names on the older kids. To make me more like her, I too am middle-nameless.”

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