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...Jeest," whispered a hoarse Earnest 1, Sly '48 when contacted last night, my big opportunity, and me with laryngitis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Everybody Gets in the Act' As Students Flock to Opera | 3/4/1947 | See Source »

...they have the benefit of a detached analysis of the forces that are wracking them. And when it does come, there probably won't be any need for it. Meantime they will suffer in silence, and keep on huddling in cold little groups in the lee of Memorial Hall: "Jeest, I thought at least there'd be some choice. Now what did you say on that third question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DECLINE OF THE TEST | 1/19/1940 | See Source »

...department stores. This man had begun his task when it occurred to him that perhaps the store in question employed individual makeup and type. He asked the boss of the ad alley about it. The boss, a squat and blue-jowled individual, spat on the floor, observed "Jeest, why don't yuh rubber da rag?'' Dr. Durston, on business somewhere in the background, overheard the remark, thought it apt. Next day every machine, desk, locker and press in the Standard office carried the words "Rubber da Rag" on neat white cards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 17, 1931 | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

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