Word: em
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anatomy of Andrew Jackson's rampant bronze horse an insult or two, then pull up in the club dining room and on evil days have a martini, maybe two. About then our natural leader, Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News, would shout, "Okay, boys, let's cut 'em up." There followed golden hours of bombast, insult, vituperation and disparagement aimed at Presidents, editors, academics, clergymen, members of Congress and little old ladies in tennis shoes. Osborne, the courtly Southerner, was heard on somber occasions to say "darn." Thus cleansed, we returned to duty -- and, as we now know, banishment...
...Mayor. Maybe someday somebody was take care of the Mayor's worries, but it sure as hell is not going to be him. Where is he when ya need 'em...
PAULY DOESN'T like it. "Well, I'll tell ya," he told Dennis, "No commie law from the Mayor is gonna work in this town. We like our sports and we're gonna keep 'em...
...worrying about this. It sure ain't like we don't have enough real problems in the city. Why doesn't he do anything about the violence in my neighborhood? It's a hell of a lot worse than anything out there. Where's the Mayor when ya need 'em...
Pauly did. "Must have been against Montreal," he recalled. Those Kunuks would come down from Worcester for the game. They'd get a couple of beers in 'em, start gettin' cocky, and all hell would break loose...