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Dropping politics into the wastebasket along with another letter, "Bossy" withdrew education again. "If I'd wanted to, I coulda been one of the best college students goin'. I got the bug on law. I'd really show some of them buzzards if I was a lawyer. Prohibition, now I used to argue for prohibition, but it's just a damn farce the way it's going now. We oughta be free, and do what we want to. What's the Statue of Liberty for, anyway...
...Torchlight processions of Republicans in the summer and fall of 1860 sang "Old Abe Lincoln Came Out of the Wilderness": Old Abe Lincoln came out of the Wilderness, Old Abe Lincoln came out of the Wilderness, Old Abe Lincoln came out of the Wilderness, Down in Illinois. "Man Goin' Roun' " came from Columbia, S. C. A homely, black woman sang it: There's a man goin' roun' takin' names, There's a, man goin' roun' takin names...
...took my mother's name, An' he leave my heart in pain, There's a man goin' roun' takin' names...
...Springs, Ark., were stirred one evening last fortnight as they had not been stirred since April 6, 1917. A pack of newsboys, coursing through the crowded streets at cinema time, were baying like gutter beagles, "UX-try, UX-tree-e! 'Clare War on Chine! M'rines goin' tuh Chine! UX-try! UX-tree! War wit' Chine...
Otto Grow: "Ef I kin get uh chanst to duck when me boss ain't lookin', I'll be there. Ya can't tell me they're goin' to play baseball alla time...