ABSTRACT
MIS U N D E R S TOO DAM E RIC A N ISM S 329 turies metaphorically to describe the position of a business man who no longer needs support, b~ing able to care for himself, passes the present writer's ability to conjecture. The next entry among "ons" is simply cryptic. It runs thus:
"ON ICE, Dead; from placing body on ice to aid in faking it." What sort of process is faking a body?
