Word: along
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mike Mahoney, who is supposed to have retired with $250,000 in his poke, spends most of his time at luncheons and banquets reciting Poet Robert W. Service's doleful ballads Dangerous Dan McGrew and The Cremation of Sam McGee. According to Mr. Mahoney, he was present, along with Poet Service, when a crazed engineer named Madden burst into the Dominion saloon at Dawson and shot Gambler McGrew for running away with his wife. What Poet Service did not mention, said Mr. Mahoney last week, was that the "lady called Lou" was also shot. She recovered, he said...
...Swiss authorities declared that an estimated 140 Jews per day had been "clandestinely" fleeing from Germany into Switzerland, announced that barbed wire is being strung along the frontier to stem this "Jewish flood." Jewish refugee camps in Switzerland were reported jampacked last week. The camp at Diepoldsau hoisted a banner reading: "THANKS TO THE SWISS PEOPLE...
...kindling is transformed into gas in an ungainly looking "generator" as the bus lumbers along. This gas drives a conventional gasoline engine on which the liquid carburetor has been replaced by a gas carburetor. Last week Dictator Stalin approved orders to build in Russia within two years 56,000 wood-burning motor trucks...
Northern Negroes, settling in large cities, rarely know a brassie from a mashie until they have become prosperous enough to enjoy the game as a pastime. But in the South, where country clubs use Negro caddies in great numbers, many moppets learn the fundamentals of golf along with their ABCs...
After the first round, however, the greater part of the gallery of 300 trudged around after lanky, woolly-topped Howard Wheeler of Atlanta-watched him tee up on the edge of a match folder, shuffle along the fairways in a Stepin Fetchit gait, plop down on the greens while waiting his turn to putt. A onetime professional whose occupation has been "just walkin' round" since he lost his job at Atlanta's Lincoln (Negro) Country Club in 1933. 29-year-old Howard Wheeler proved last week that he could still teach folks a few golfing tricks. With...