Word: heyes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your amusing story of Mrs. Theodore G. Bilbo's being accosted. "Hey. Bilbo!" in Washington by Chief Guide William C. Hall as carried in June 22 TIME is impossible...
...days later James C. Hall, president of the Master Guides of America, was crying up trade, as is his wont, on Washington's Pennsylvania Ave. before the White House. He spotted tourists' cars by their out-of-town licenses and hailed them with some appropriate local epithet. "Hey, Cracker!" he would call to Georgians. Tourists from Illinois were greeted with "Hey, Capone!'' and from North Carolina, "Hey, Tar Heel!" When Guide Hall saw a big car with a Mississippi tag rolling toward him, he sung out the state cry: "Hey, Bilbo...
...yearly. More do than ask for many of the autographs of film stars, not that I deserve it-but it is an indication that the American public does not desert its sport idols altogether. And another, thing! Nearly every speed cop when he catches up with a speeder asks "Hey, d'ya think yer Barney Oldneld?" That is, of course, when they're not askin': "Whezdafire, huh?" and "Wher' th'lya goin'?" You know me, BARNEY OLDFIELD...
Nobody knows how far the long arm of he Brothers Shubert reaches in show business. They have affiliations throughout the country, from New York where hey put on more shows than any other producer, through St. Louis where Nephew Milton Shubert is production manager of he Municipal Theatre, to Hollywood where they have potent friends; also eastward into Europe. Last week Brothers Lee & Jake sold out their interest in London's Associated Theatre Properties Inc. (operators of five important West End playhouses: the Apollo, Adelphi, Shaftesbury, Gaiety, His Majesty's) for a reputed price...
...Surrender!" is one of those slogans like "Hey Rube!" which mean little except to the initiate. "No Surrender!" means nothing particular nowadays, but not so many years ago it would have been instantly understood by any of those determined English females who shouted "Votes for Women!" in unlikely places at embarrassing moments, and continued to shout until hauled to the police station. No Surrender is the story of some of the Suffragettes' goings-on, and of the taking-off of one of their younger and prettier members...