Who is Chester Drawers - 11 July 2011

<p>SUMMARY<br /><br />Some of the world's most famous writers had to support themselves with day jobs. Martha and Grant discuss well-known authors who toiled away at other trades. Also this week, Eskimo kisses, the frozen Puerto Rican treat called a limber, how the word fail ended up as a noun, the phrase I'm efforting that, and where you would throw a houlihan. And what's a chester drawers?<br /><br />FULL DETAILS<br /><br />Some of the world's greatest writers had to do their work while holding down a day job. William Faulkner and Anthony Trollope toiled as postal clerks. Zora Neal Hurston trained as an anthropologist. Vladimir Nabokov was a lepidopterist who curated a butterfly exhibit at Harvard. Literary historian Jack Lynch tells the stories of these and others in his new book, Don't Quit Your Day Job: What the Famous Did That Wasn't. <br /><br />http://bit.ly/aT4oXe<br /><br />An Indianapolis newspaperman complains about his colleagues' use of the phrase I'm efforting that.<br /><br />A woman in Racine, Wis., says her father and his fellow bus drivers always pronounced the word schedule as "skeh-DOO-lee." Is that an accepted pronunciation? <br /><br />Todd Purdum's recent Vanity Fair article on the presidency contains intriguing beltway slang, including gaggle and full lid.<br /><br />http://bit.ly/cXgmIj<br /><br />Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a game called "Word Search."<br /><br /> A woman of Puerto Rican descent wonders about limber, the name of the savory frozen treat popular in her homeland. Was it really named in honor of aviator Charles Lindbergh?<br /><br />A man in Huntington Beach, Ca., ponders his teenager's frequent use of the words fail and epic fail. Grant explains what this has to do with linguistic bleaching, and discusses some funny fails on failblog.org.<br /><br />http://failblog.org/<br /><br />Martha has an example of a linguistic false friend: In Latvian, the word vista means "chicken."<br /><br />On a recent episode of "Mad Men," a character said "keep me in the loop." Was that phrase