Word: fella
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shows in eight days). Missionary Salau (rhymes with allow) is a feature writer's dream. His father was a headhunter, he wears odd clothes, he obligingly describes the wonders of Western civilization in pidgin English. Said he of an elevator ride: "Time me go inside one fella room. Missus he sock 'im one fella button. This bockis him get up. Belly belong me like come...
Papa belong me fella, stop on top; name belong You he tabu...
Nowadays, a man just can't be sure. With all these people blasting away with dynamite and gunpowder, it's getting so he can't tell a real honest-to-goodness explosion from a fella trying to have a little good clean fun. Why, if all the blasts heard around here were the real McCoy, Cambridge would be as bare today as a Kansas wheatfield after a record harvest...
...beat Army' or 'The night I knock out Graziano.' " Billy tells how Yonkel was once outjinxed by one Timothy Whitehead, who had lost $5,000,000 in the '29 crash. "That's diffrunt," said Yonkel, "winnin' from dat kinda fella don't mean I'm all washed up azza jink. I wuz outclassed...
...Robert Moses. "I wrote Moses, but no answer," said Salvatore sadly. Now he is resigned, but hopeful. As the spinning steel ball brought down the buildings around him last week, Salvatore said: "We're good, quiet people, all working people. Mostly Italians, but there's a Jewish fella and an Irish fella. We always get along. No fights. Never need the police. So maybe they let us stay...