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...worth of her clothes in department stores across the nation and picking up an occasional $120 per hour as a model. At a loss to explain why anyone would pay that much to take her picture, Twiggy said objectively: "Hit's not really wot you call a figger...
...found out beauty is only skin deep. I know she'll work with me on the farm-some girls wouldn't-and she might even go out and milk a cow." Will Ann help out with the farm correspondence and book work? Says Joe: "Yes, I figger she'll handle all of it except things about money." In Kansas City last week, Joe and Ann walked hand in hand as they shopped for a diamond ring...
...same damn day. Why--." "But they're not unemployed, are they?" said the girl. "Gimme another question," said Trainor. The woman in the shawl scowled at the girl while Trainor was engrossed in the subtleties of another question. "It don't take an Einstein," he replied, "to figger out that when the workers find out what it's all about, they aren't gonna take it lying down . . . some of them learn slow, but sooner or later there's gonna be a workers' revolution...
...over towards the barber shop. "Any left?" "Dunno. Wyn'cha go look?" The little boy started to brush through the crowd, then stopped and looked at the bigger boy. "You from 'round here?" "Nah," said the bigger boy. "Eighth street." "Why you here?" "I'm carryin' a sign." "Ya figger you'll get paid?" "Better," said the bigger boy, and he held the sign a little higher and faced up towards the platform...
After reading a speech by socialist CCF Leader M. J. Coldwell, she said: "The way I figger it, come the day when Coldwell is runnin' the country, there'll be ... freedom for everybody. . . . Everybody starves to death, of course, after a week or two, but it don't matter. We're all free...