Word: bummere
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...surface of the carpet. To get the deeply imbedded dirt the careful housewife had to lift her carpets each spring, hang them on the clothesline in the back yard and then hope for a tramp to come along and whack the dirt out of the carpets. If no bummer appeared, she knew that she would be obliged to quarrel with her husband that evening before he would do the "dirty work." Therefore, she often beat the carpets herself and got her long hair, her eyes and her lungs filled with street filth tracked into her best parlor. Carpet beaters...
These women are of high calibre, capably accommodate the stranded youngster and firmly reject the leering bummer who wants a ticket "from Manhattan to San Francisco." Him they send to lodging houses or other social service societies. The child, girl or woman, if relatives cannot be reached immediately, is taken to the Guest House of the Manhattan Society on E. 43rd St. If traveling funds are needed, the Manhattan agent wires to relatives or to the Travelers Aid worker in the far city...
...back. Ten dollars isn't much, but it's the principle of the thing. And sometimes these informal loans involve real principal. Then Speed and Joe, once good friends, reach a snarling estrangement. One calls the other "tightwad," "usurer"; is himself called "dead beat," "sponger," "crook," "bummer...
...popular "Joey" Harris hit a homerun-his third of the series. With the score 2 to 2 in the seventh inning, Moore, young Pittsburgh second baseman, drew a base on balls. Carey singled. Cuyler singled. "Sarah" Barnhart singled. Two runs had scored, and Washington advocates were crying: "Cheese!" and "Bummer!" at Coveleskie. The Polish pitcher (who won three World Series games in 1920 when he pitched for Cleveland against Brooklyn) trod slowly with downcast head toward a, shower bath; one Ballou, of scant fame, took his place, and Pittsburgh scored twice more. "Back, then, to Pittsburgh!" cried the fanatics...
...bummer because I had been building up to win," DeNunzio said. "But characteristically I haven't come back well after a loss and this time I was able to prove that I could...