Word: fer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want to work fer the CRIMSON...
...working-class solidarity. Hit of the show was 69-year-old "Granny" Nelly Cressall, Labor's grand old lady, whose pep talk was recorded and will be played at street corners during the campaign. Excerpt: "I remember the days when my neighbors used ter come and ask me fer a penny fer the gas meter-and I 'adn't got it. Now they come creatin' about their big gas bills. It makes me mad-'aven't they got memories? Don't they know what this wonderful party's done fer...
...laughed too. Croupiers, whom he often left hoarse and groggy after all-night sessions, had a nickname for the huge, lusty man who puffs eight-inch cigars and gambles with machine-like energy-they call him The Locomotive. In one week The Locomotive lost $160,000 at chemin de fer...