Word: ems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whined a flower girl on the steps of lamplit St. Paul's Cathedral: "All my flowers shriveled up, and the buds go brown with frost. Politics, I don't understand 'em. It's warmth I want...
...em Younger." Step A was organizing a farm system. Says Birney Crum: "If you start a boy from scratch in high school, he's ready to graduate just about the time he's learning to play. . . . I get 'em younger." He controls basketball in the city's seven elementary schools, where Crum-trained coaches spot likely kids. Coach Crum is also director of Allentown's 17 summer playgrounds, where basketball courts are standard equipment. "Any time I come across a promising stringbean," says he, "I just naturally bring him along...
...care mighty little about playing, and wished he hadn't come. He tweedle-eedled a little on the treble, and twoodle-oodled some on the bass. . . . All of a sudden, old Ruby changed his tune. . . . He lit into them keys like a thousand of brick. He give 'em no rest, day or night. He set every living joint in me agoing, and not being able to stand it no longer, I jumped spang into my seat and jest hollered: 'Go it, my Rube!' Every blamed man, woman and child in the house...
...have any of my peanuts When his peanuts are gone. . . . Ok, won't that be joyful, joyful, joyful, Oh, that will be joyful, when his peanuts are gone. There were many variations on the same theme, e.g.: When his John Wanamaker's endurable, reversible, sit-on-'em and mash 'em, patent restorable, operatic plug hats are gone...
...showing the folks back in Dumas, Ark. (pop. 2,315) that he had made good. McKennon never got beyond the fourth grade, where he grew so much bigger than the other boys that his family finally took him out so he "wouldn't be a-disgracing 'em." Before he left, he won a spelling bee, a triumph as sweet then as his cotton deal was last week. Said he proudly: "I sure showed 'em where the bear sat in the buckwheat...