Word: allright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...didn't render a decision of guilty." The lawyer for the defence jumped up and said 'Those men aren't jurors; they're witnesses'. He then aled exceptions on the grounds of intoxication in the jury and lack of evidence, the jury having finished it off. A swell mess allright...
From the Ghetto to Allright-niks...
Shortly thereafter Judge Hirsch marries his mistress, Gretel, who has been living with the Hirsch family. "Mother does not speak to Gretel." Meyer's political career is ended by the scandal. But he clings to the judgeship and he lives in "Allright-niks Row, Riverside Drive. . . . The Ghetto called anyone who was well off-one who is all right in this world, that is, well fixed- allrightniks." Meyer is well fixed-a great beast of a man. "Haunch, paunch and jowl" his enemies had called him. It pierced his hide a little, that name. He remembered it in critical...