Word: ems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Keep 'Em Guessing. Caniff's house on Tor Ridge, a spectacular modern affair-designed and owned by Neighbor Henry Varnum Poor, was a port of call for scores of flyers during the war. The tabletalk kept Caniff abreast of servicemen's slang; the grateful flyers paid their bread-&-butter calls by buzzing the house. As a favor, the Army flew him across the U.S. in a jolting 6-24, to give him the feel of it. He can "still hear the nyaaa-aaaa-aaaa of those motors-and feel the cold, going on hour after hour. Jeez...
Most of the white spectators jamming the small federal courtroom in Jackson, Miss, had a real good time laughing and winking. Sometimes they shouted: "Tell 'em, Bilbo!" "The Man" himself was in high humor-despite the fact that he faced possible loss of his Senate seat...
Pick 'em Up. If that was the answer to their blowup, the question for earnest Democratic politicians was what to do next. First of all, they needed someone to start picking up the pieces. National Chairman Bob Hannegan had fled, exhausted, to rest. Presumably he would resign when he came back. Aspiring successors were around, but none of them amounted to much. The chief applicant was fat, genial Robert Kerr, who would be out of his job as Governor of Oklahoma in January...
...common with his competitors, O'Brien sadly affirmed that scotch would be unavailable for the great mass of eager purchasers. His advice to the frustrated, in the grand manner of a Bourbon queen of France, was "let 'em drink rye--of bourbon...
Several visitors to Gee's Bend, Ala. were talking to an old Negro, and making heavy weather of it. The old man spotted a friend and called out: "Mistuh Johnson, Mistuh Johnson! Come on over hyar and understan' 'em...