Word: helles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Apropos of that caballero and equestrian tycoon, William Gibbs McAdoo, recently depicted with Mexican accoutrements en grande tenue, and set forth as mounting, "up onto a prancing mare," (TIME, Aug. 20), kindly permit the following correction; -"Hell! that aint no mare...
...Marines, onetime orderly for President Roosevelt, alleged inventor of "the Leathernecks" as a nickname for the Marines, alleged onetime manager of "the two biggest advertising agencies in New York," sheriff of Erie County, Pa., and President of the Pennsylvania State Sheriffs' Association, said: "To hell with the District Attorney of Crawford County and Prohibition...
...fact become known than Thomas Whelpley became a human interest story. All Manhattan newssheets gave him stories, while the World paid him to attach his name to a series of articles recounting his experiences. The series told: about a woman who entered his cab saying "Drive me to Hell!", plunged through her biography in luridly improbable terms, drank liquor from a bottle and implied an improper proposal in her admission that she had no money to pay the fare; about two Negresses, who, while sitting in Thomas Whelpley's cab, engaged in a long conversation on their ability...
...humor in the events at the Republican Convention at Kansas City. I refer to that plank in the Republican platform in which they say, 'We stand for honesty in Government.' Now, why bring that up?" "Senator Borah wants to refund the wages of sin, but how in hell does Borah know they ain't gonna steal no more?" "Hays improved on Patrick Henry. He strikes an attitude, with hand on heart and says, 'Give me Liberty Bonds or cash!": "The Republican party has done much to relieve the farmer-of his farm." Listeners, observing that...
...citizens left the swamps to low-class Irish and Negroes, companions in debauch. Fighting in their undershirts, with brickbats, bludgeons, paving stones, knives and guns, the sluggers ganged up: Plug Uglies, Dead Rabbits (then slang for rowdy toughs), Shirt Tails, Roach Guards, Gophers. Besides aimless roughhouse, just for the hell of it, they conducted elaborate hold-ups with prostitutes as decoys, robbed ships in the harbor, pilfered the Hudson coast villages, wreaked vengeance on interfering rival gangs, and assisted forcefully at Tammany elections. This valuable service was munificently rewarded by police connivance, practical immunity from prison, and a generally healthful...