Word: corkers
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...over the weekend, and (2) we're equally certain that you will be able to find E. G. Davis any night at 2000 this week at the center table at the student club telling some novice the story of "the hillbilly who got drafted"... it's a corker...
...Brothers Ashurst think up their own stuff, do no ghosting for each other. Says Brother Henry of Brother Edward: "He's a corker. He will say to a man he is sending to jail, 'My dear sir, I hate to do this when there are so many guilty men roaming the streets...
Although no issue of moment was to come up, he attended the brief (20 minutes) Senate session that day. In the afternoon he read his mail and inquired about a Negro woman who had asked him to get her a job. He requested his young clerk, Charles Corker, to pick him up in the park around 4:30 and motor him home. "Are you sure you have the time?" twice asked Borah of Idaho, mindful that the stripling had pre-law classes to attend. Reassured, overcoated (without the blanket), the Senator trudged out of the office, along the echoing basement...
...Bill, I've got you a triple threat! And is he a corker! He's kind of old, but he's still got plenty of football left in him. He has played on about every semi-pre outfit around here (but he's smart enough to know how to be an amateur when the occasion demands, Bill) and he's burned up every league he's ever been in. There is the usual catch in this case, Bill, as in every other, viz, the boy's a little dumb, in fact he is awful dumb. What will we do? What...
...Today, says Marshall, Wiseman is one-quarter its boom size, but it is neither depressed nor dreary. Most of its inhabitants came to make a fortune, stayed to enjoy life. Said one old sourdough: ''My God. the time runs away to nothing. Ain't it a corker the way time goes? You can't accomplish anything before you're ready to be buried." Marshall persuaded most Koyukukers to take the Stanford-Binet intelligence test, found them by & large the most intelligent people he had ever known. The ''very superior" class was four times...