Word: em
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number of tenants on it with nice homes and three acres apiece for farms and livestock. Nary a one has a cow, nary a one has a chicken, nary a one has a pig, and nary a one has a vegetable garden. But every danged one of 'em has an automobile. I reason that no man making $2 a day can afford to run an automobile. It just can't be done on a sound economic basis...
...permitted circumstances to push him, insists on his right to climb out and do the job for which he is best fitted and likes most. "I have never been one of those gifted birds who could sit back and say: 'All right boys, go get 'em!'" complains Roy Howard. "I have to say: 'All right boys, let's go get 'em!' " The cares and complications of management bore and worry him, as is evidenced by his long dependence on dependable Bill Hawkins...
...Because of it. bull elephants are extremely rare in U. S. circuses and zoos. Some months ago Director Edmund Heller of San Francisco's Fleishhacker Zoo decided to try breeding his four cow elephants, began looking for a mate. He wrote to famed Animal Collector Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck, who had supplied three of the cows, and both searched in vain until the Al G. Barnes Circus announced that it would be glad to give San Francisco a bull which had be come a nuisance because of his uncertain temper...
...disconcerting. The players wore freak hats, jigged all over the platform, had a stuffed monkey set up in front of the drums with electric lights for eyes and a baton that waved automatically. Popular tunes when the Dixieland first went North were Pretty Baby, They're Wearing 'em Higher in Hawaii, Oh How She Could Yacki Hacki Wicki Wacki Woo. Soon the metropolis was cavorting to the Dixieland's own tunes, which have since become jazz classics: Tiger Rag by La Rocca, Clarinet Marmalade by Shields and Ragas, Sensation Rag by Edwards, At the Jazz Band Ball...
...Pont de Nemours authorized a flat 10% increase for white-collar em-ployes, effective June...