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Then the cabs started to roll. Denny Lewis, John L.'s little brother and boss of District 50, told the boys to hold fast, that U.M.W.'s $14 million treasury was behind them, but the strikers found out they couldn't get a dime for a cuppa cawfee...
...average Briton would raise no flag on Vesting Day. As he woke in his frigid bedroom, shaved in icy water and ate a cold breakfast without the cheering "hot cuppa tea," he wanted his socialism translated into a fuller coal scuttle. Even his ingenious efforts to circumvent the coal shortage were backfiring. He heated his rooms with electric "fires"; result: an overstraining of the nation's electrical plants, and periodic interruption of power supply. He tried to warm his water with gas by using strange, traditional, Rube Goldberg contraptions called "geysers" (pronounced geezers). Result: a critical nationwide lowering...
...worse during the depression. To the company of the old lady with the remarkably heavy bundle have joined themselves amateurs of all descriptions, young and old, tough and tender, sober and heary, but with the one symbol of their Freemasonry, the refrain "Could jalemme have a dime for a cuppa coffee Mister?" which of these poor wretches are deserving are merely down on their luck, and which are moochers, beggars pure and simple, the casual passerby can hardly determine. If that casual passerby have any of the elements of humanity in him he cannot give all a curt refusal...