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...will youse guys cut that row? Waddaye think dis is?" then with a reverent motion towards Kirkland, "Youse pro'bly didn't know dat some of de greatest brains in dis country was woikin in dese very walls." And in almost ethereal silence the garbage crew, much chastened, continued to ply their tasks with the thought of some of the greatest minds in the world right at work, not twenty feet away, still buzzing in their heads...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 12/18/1936 | See Source »

...could use and was forced to turn them away. About dark an old grey-haired Negro, perhaps 65 years old, shuffled up. "Boss, I wants a job." "Sorry. Lige, I have more men now than I need." "Boss, I jes' got to have a job. Dese is de hardest times on an old. nigger I ever saw. I can't get a job nowhere. I walked all de way out here, nine miles in de rain and I's hungry. I knows I can't work like a young nigger but I can still chop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 11, 1932 | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

Last fortnight Edyth B. Gray, of Groton, Conn., Uncas descendant, started suit for $1,000,000 against the State of Connecticut and the city of Norwich, on the ground that the royal burying plot, now reduced to 16 acres, had been dese crated by the removal of tombstones, the erection of a Masonic temple, high pres sure real estate development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Stephanus; Uncas | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...World's Sunday staff. The World countered with another Yellow Kid series. Serious-minded people pointed to the Yellow Kids as horrible examples, cried out against the "yellow journalism" of both Hearst and Pulitzer.* But Outcault was enjoying himself and his Yellow Kid was shouting: "I wish dat dese lovely wimmin wud leave me alone." He was supposed to have founded these comics on a group of street imps who were burlesquing the Duke of Marlborough's wedding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death of Outcault | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...Milt Gross would say, "Dese Meeltons don't have no more de two bits, aient it Meesis Feetlebaum?." Which is rather true, for the price of verse is rapidly descending, in fact too much so. If one really wants to make money he should take divisionals and then write his Prisoner's Song and collect the price of two Morris chairs, one divan and golf course--enough for any man, more than enough...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 5/4/1926 | See Source »

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