Word: ems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Goldtooth" Mahoney, town em- ploye)?"He did me dirt. He can loaf somewhere else...
...rancher. Some will come to him after the recital, and ask him if he has ever heard "the other version of that last one he sang," or tell him he should go down to the end of the town and "hear the old nigger lady who moans 'em by the hour." Mr. Sandburg has always gone, always listened. He has kept a notebook, jotted down the words and the tunes in strange hieroglyphics comprehensible only to himself. Now he presents them as The American Songbag.* There are some 280, and, like the family piecebag, they are of all colors...
...country that since March 4, 1925, Congress has authorized or appropriated some 20 millions for construction of new Army buildings. He estimated that another 14 millions would be provided in the new budget and in the deficiency bill. "But what about General Summerall?" asked the Washington Sic 'Em Boys.* " Will he be rebuked? Will he be disciplined...
...They DO huh? Look. Nathan F. Leopold Senior. Why do they put the Senior in? That's the tipoff. Everybody knows now who he is. Why tell everybody, tease 'em; and supress the dirt...
Rear Admiral Magruder retracted no jot or tittle of his article but did say that certain "Sic 'Em Boys" (copy-starved newspaper correspondents) had ridiculously misrepresented his attitude when they reported him scowling and gesturing at news of Secretary Wilbur's alleged ire. Washington stirred in anticipation of another screed from him, soon to be published in the Saturday Evening Post...