Word: guys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...halt the Khan, his wife was understood to have taken a crack at Elkton Town Officer Jacob Biddle. Iranians boiled with indignation at reports that the native Biddle not only failed to recognize the diplomatic status and immunity of His Excellency but exclaimed in the Maryland vernacular, "Aw, this guy is nothing but a preacher!" Then, actually grappling with the Great Khan, Biddle snapped the degrading shackles of a criminal on his wrists. What would President Roosevelt do, Iranians asked each other, if a similar outrage were perpetrated by Iranian police upon U. S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary William...
...mattresses are no longer in use, nor have they been for some years. This would indicate that the situation has improved. Should any extra-heavy boot be used to boost John over, the fence when he is already being ushered ceremoniously, if slowly, out of the yard gate? Guy Garland...
Last week, when Undersecretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell called a trade meeting of Philadelphia and Boston poultrymen for Nov. 26, the cork of their wrath popped out of the bottle of their indignation. Said Charles F. Bauman, secretary of the Philadelphia dealers: "He's just plain dumb or plumb mean. Either it's stupidity or else he knows Nov. 26 is one of the times we work day & night. If Mr. Tugwell doesn't know that Thanksgiving Day [Nov. 28] means turkey or some kind of fowl to most of the U. S. what right...
...George M. Rascoe, TIME, Nov. 11, p. 72. From the latter I quote: "His dogs are a springer spaniel . . . and some sort of a fox hound. . . . For either birds or rabbits the two dogs would be as ridiculous as the riding boots. . . . And now the old pappy-guy with the red mittens. An extended rabbit may be that long but that gesture would never describe any sort of an American game bird. . . . Personally, I'm going to stick to plain gasoline...
...springer spaniel, I have never thought my springer "ridiculous" as I followed him through the fields and watched his clever work on both rabbits and pheasants. And incidentally most of the tail feathers of the pheasants I have shot over him were longer than the old pappy-guy's gesture...