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...Clintonville, Wis. persons unnamed invited contributions of 15? a week for a ''society to give relief to folks hearing about other folks getting from $1 to $50 every week for some darn thing or other. . . ." Instead of issuing scrip, bottle caps, ham & eggs or pension checks, the society would impound all money received until 1940, then send it to the county humane society to care for members of other pension movements who have become "deaf, blind and mentally unbalanced by present political pension persiflage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Arizona Kid | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...dancing all the year round to anybody's music, although my weakness is Calloway. Want to be in on a secret? Yes?--'I'd give my best pal away for Calloway.' (Yeah, man!!). His music does something to me. I hear that 'swing' is going out of style. Darn it! (oops, pardon my French). What are your views on music and orchestras...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Men Jealous of Heroes Of Gridiron, Letter Reveals | 10/21/1938 | See Source »

...expect business to be a darn sight better here than it was down there," Keezer said in an interview, explaining that people did not like to be seen buying used clothing, which is his principal stock in trade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAX KEEZER TRANSFERS EMPORIUM FROM SQUARE | 10/19/1938 | See Source »

...whole darn prom was here, elbow room and all, and I really looked pretty hot. Just then I got in a fight with some guys who I crash were thinking because they had stiff shirts on and they busted in three of my window panes. So I went down the towel shoot to avoid bumping into the crowds coming in the doors. But I bumped into some climb trying to rat up the shamn doot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overset | 3/12/1938 | See Source »

...When Johnny Macionis came out I knew everything was all right. He stood there just as steady as ever and waited for the end of the pool to come around. But just as he was about to dive in the darn thing come hit and up him and all the big apples swum right into the Bromo Seltzers in blue bathing suits and the empty bottles went round and round...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overset | 3/12/1938 | See Source »

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