Word: bozos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Well," said grizzled old Bozo Damich, the U.M.W.'s International Representative, "there's a saying which goes that the miner will spend $10 a day if he has it, or he can live 100 days on $10 if he has to. If things get hard our men will be buying a barrel of mush and living on it three meals...
What about the court injunction? Old Bozo Damich had part of the answer: "You can't give a court order to make a man think the way you want him to think...
Then to Julius' for dinner and the strongest sloe gin fizzes in New York... Dropped over to West 4th, where Sterling Boso and Rod Cless room together... Bozo, an old New Orleans man himself, insisted that Louie played the river with King Oliver on the Capitol before the King went to Chicago, despite the statement of many critics to the contrary ... Caught the dinner show at Nick's, where Pee Wee comes out at night and Miff Mole looks at his watch every five minutes to make sure that he doesn't play overtime ... Then to Cafe downtown...
Life with the Berigans. In Omaha, when the F. A. Berigans' dog, Bozo, got his foot and tail caught in a hay mower, Frank Berigan jumped over a fence to help him, cut himself on one knee, hit himself in the eye with the other; sister Pat ran out of the house, slipped, sprained her wrist; Mrs. Berigan, startled as she was canning, sprained her finger; and Champ, another Berigan dog, jumped over the barn door and broke his foot...
...know, Frank, a boy and his dog are no more inseparable companions than an old fellow and his dog. An old bozo is a nuisance to almost everybody -except his dog. . . . She always slept on a big chair in my room and her solicitous gaze followed me to bed at night and was the first thing to greet me when I woke in the morning. Then when I arose she begged for the special distinction of being...