Word: grips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grip, the Rat is a story packed with words pronounced differently in different localities. It begins: "Once there [thar, theah] was a young rat [ret, rate] who couldn't make [mek, mack] up his mind. Whenever the other [udder, othah] rats asked [eskt, ast] him if he would like [lake, lack] to come out [oat, aout] with them [dem], he would answer [enser, ahnser], 'I don't know [ah doan-no, I dunno],' and when they said, 'Would you [wouldja] like to stop [stawp] at home [hum, hown]?' he wouldn...
...Scott Vare, 66, merchant, onetime Congressman from Pennsylvania (1912-27) and later its famed Senator-reject, longtime boss of Philadelphia's Republican machine; of a heart attack; in Atlantic City. Elected to the Senate in 1926, he was refused his seat because of excessive primary expenditures ($785,000). His grip on the Philadelphia machine was broken in last May's primaries...
...Monday's violence was sporadic, minor?a few bricks heaved, a few trucks upset, some creosote bombs tossed through windows in Oakland. By nightfall Harry Bridges was easing his grip. On order of the Public Utilities Commission municipal streetcars began running again, with the strike committee's full assent. Picket lines made no move to stop police-guarded food trucks coming in from nearby farms. The strike committee announced full resumption of bakery, milk and ice deliveries. Citizens heard that the committee was planning to let all restaurants open next morning. But all liquor sales were banned "during the emergency...
...government which has ever been permitted to torture the human family, the most burdensome, the most expensive, the most demoralizing, the most devastating to human happiness and the most destructive of human values is a bureaucracy. It has destroyed every civilization upon which it has fastened its lecherous grip...
...shall during the summer and autumn, as best I may, present these matters to the people of this country and urge them to ask the leaders at Washington to loosen the grip of bureaucracy upon the daily lives and habits of the people...