Word: ems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guys know there is a state of Iowa or don't you give a damn*? Personally, I believe that the country would be better off if we took your city, Chicago, Detroit and all the rest of 'em out in the Pacific Ocean and used them for target practice for that fleet that is burning up the "jack" by the thousands and hundreds of thousands each...
...Still the brightest boy in the class, Scott Fitzgerald holds up his hand. It is noticed that his literary trousers are longer, less bell-bottomed, but still precious. His recitation concerns Daisy Fay who, drunk as a monkey the night before she married Tom Buchanan, muttered: "Tell 'em all Daisy's chang' her mind." A certain penniless Navy lieutenant was believed to be swimming out of her emotional past. They gave her a cold bath, she married Buchanan, settled expensively at West Egg, L. I., where soon appeared one lonely, sinister Gatsby, with mounds of mysterious gold...
...attempted illustrations "krem of whet" and "ye krem" would giv any student of fonology a spasm. I never saw em used for the sound in seem. It is always as in gem,-hem. To skolars c is merely the round form of k and some day wil be displaced by k; but we leav cream as no one mispronounces it. "-But we spel leag so foreners and children won't pronouns it in 2 sylables like ague. They call head heed, like bead, but our hed is clearer as is our shorter and better hav; but have will...
...full swing. The strikers invited Mr. Baldwin to address them in their hall. Chief of Police Tracey vetoed the invitation, closed the hall. Undaunted, Mr. Baldwin-whose headquarters are the American Civil Liberties Union, Manhattan-came to town, marched with speechless strikers to the City Hall. "Go for 'em! Break 'em up!" cried a lusty policeman. "I am reading the Bill of Rights"* was all a striker could utter before a police sergeant shoved him from his perch on the top step and recited the Riot...