Word: abe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front cover) If Old Abe were livin' right now These are the words he'd say: 'This country with its institutions 'Belongs to the people who inhabit it! 'Whenever they shall grow weary 'Of the existing government 'They can exercise their constitutional right...
...When Sir Abe Bailey, rich & witty South African gold miner, had one of his legs amputated last summer, Capetown thought he was dead, dropped its flags to half mast.* Last week, suffering from phlebitis (vein inflammation), the doughty 73-year-old lost his other leg, two days later issued a personal bulletin declaring his operation successful, his condition satisfactory...
...Said Sir Abe when he heard of the false report: "They won't be able to pull my leg any more...
...police, as Minister of Home Affairs, is fiery Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu. When deputies demanded that the posters be taken down he stormed at these representatives of the Japanese people as though they were schoolboys meddling on a warship's bridge. However, after 73-year-old Mr. Isoo Abe, leader of the Social Mass Party, had had his jaw broken by ruffians and retired to bed, Admiral Suetsugu permitted the police to give deputies opposed to the bill some protection, and the more inflammatory posters were pasted over with milder ones. To prove that His Imperial Majesty's Government...
After a few years the Terrible Buzzards broke up. A few of them even married and settled down. But not Abe, not Joe. In 1893 Abe persuaded Governor Pattison that he was a reformed character and deserved a pardon. Thereupon, he went piously from town to town preaching sermons on "Ruin and Reform." Very soon, when he was arrested again for stealing chickens, the county constables found a pistol and burglar's tools in his bag along with his Bible and hymn book. From then on he was never out of jail for very long at a time...