Word: jests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horror Stainless has a devastating effect on the women who cross his path. "Ah don't scare easily," says Stainless, "but the word matrimony jest turns mah spine to jelly." His generosity often leads to trouble. For the past two months Stainless has been acting as the target for a knife-throwing TV star named Hazie Blur-Blur who cannot see without glasses but is too vain to wear them all the time. Stainless took the job after her other partner quit, because Hazie told him that she would lose a $1,000,000 inheritance she intended...
...Kremlin's play for Guatemala had been some inexplicable practical joke, sending useless arms to Arbenz would indeed have been the cream of the jest. But members of the U.S. military mission in Guatemala, who have had a preliminary look at the Red arms, say that they were entirely usable. They included thousands of standard Mauser rifles, machine guns and machine pistols, hand grenades, mortars, 37-mm. antitank guns (deadly against trucks), 75-mm. howitzers suited to the local terrain, plus antitank and anti-personnel mines. All were in shooting condition. Not for lack of weapons, but because...
...held Holiness for a jest-and Courtesy for a waster...
...ailments and I says, 'That's funny. I never woiked in the mines ... So he told me I had fallen archeries . . . Since I went on that diet I ain't got no ulsters or no abominable trouble ... I had to practickly fast for a coupla days-jest a large cup of demitasse in the mornin' . . . He said I didn't have no sign of kodiak trouble around the heart or no coroner's trombone disease where the blood gets shut off in the artillery ... I think they call it the I Oughta . . . Everythin...
...fight that Ah have ever seen in mah life. Ah did. They would run at one another and kick one another and th'ow one another down and stomp on one another and grind their feet in one another and Ah don't know what-all-and jest as fast as one o' them'd get hurt, they'd tote him off and run another...