History
Use of the term scare quotes appears to have arisen at some point during the first half of the 20th century. Occurrence of the term in books appears as early as 1946 in a nonfiction work by Carey McWilliams titled "California" and academic literature as early as the 1950s.
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Famous quotes containing the word history:
“The steps toward the emancipation of women are first intellectual, then industrial, lastly legal and political. Great strides in the first two of these stages already have been made of millions of women who do not yet perceive that it is surely carrying them towards the last.”
—Ellen Battelle Dietrick, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 13, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)
“The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.”
—Ben C. Bradlee (b. 1921)
“A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)