What’s in a (Nick)Name?

By Carl Laning, TMN Contributor Nicknames come for a variety of reasons. “Teddy” Roosevelt. He hated it, and no one used it to his face, but it stuck. “Silent Cal” Coolidge fit very well. The joke was he never said more than three words. At a party he was approached by two young ladies, one of whom said she’d bet her girl friend, while batting her eyes and smiling coquettishly, she could get him t…