Word: guys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today, aside from being Guy Fawkes Day in England, is election day in Cambridge. In England the day is a memorial to a frustrated attempt to blow up Parliament and the reigning monarch...
...said. Then George volunteered, "Everyone around here wears white bucks--you don't shine white bucks. A guy told me they're s'posed to be dirty. Trouble is, there's nothing new--no new kind of color. I'm a Kiwi man," he said, confidentially. "But it's all the same...
Better Than Confidential. Professor Martin's exam paper ended by inviting examinees to comment on the Wise Guy's speech, "trying to show where he spoke the truth, where he spoke half-truth, and where he spoke nonsense...
Gloomy Gusses. Just before the fall of Rome, continues the Wise Guy, "a sexually repressed monk named Augustine wrote a book called The City of God in which he assured the Romans that their adoption of Christianity was not the cause of the downfall of the Empire, and that anyway it did not matter what kind of society they lived in on earth, since their destiny was a City...
...Altar Boy. McNulty had an ear like a hard neighborhood cop for the giveaway phrase. Describing one of his sad quirky little pub characters, a man called The Slugger, he wrote: "He looked like a guy that was maybe a small altar boy and fell into bad company for thirty-four years...