Word: joey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayor Joseph Chamberlain of Birmingham was considered "vulgar." He acknowledged that he was a Radical, and was darkly suspected of being both a socialist and a republican -that is, a traitor to Her Majesty Queen Victoria. So disgusted was Punch with the Radical, whom it contemptuously called "Joey," that he was caricatured as a clown, caught in the act of applying a red-hot poker labeled "Socialism" to the behind of a Briton reading the Times with a checkbook under...
...Birmingham, "Clown Joey" cleared slum areas, opened parks, cracked down on unsanitary dwellings and extortionate rents. The water and gas supply was municipalized, and in 1900 the University of Birmingham was founded by Joseph Chamberlain who had long since become a power in the House of Commons...
...oftener in the faces of Republicans and anti-New Dealers. The tycoons take their best beating in Sing Ho for Private Enterprise, where one of them groans he is reduced to eating domestic caviar. Between times the show, whose sprightly cast includes Hiram Sherman, Philip Loeb, Rex Ingram, Joey Faye, sings out the news about LaGuardia, European diplomats, liberals, Hollywood, café society...
...told he was interested in the business of bringing in Chinese which I was told was very profitable and that a man called Joey Harper . . . had been passing through Los Angeles and while he was there in one of the cheaper houses he had for a neighbor an oil man whom I had to contact . . . and he told the oil man . . . that he ... was smuggling in Chinese, that they had been caught up with ... by a U. S. cutter and had to sink the boat with the Chinese and that he afterward went to Mr. Fleishhacker...
These engaging creatures are common sights to the summer vacationists at Phillip Island. They are protected by law and heavy fines are imposed upon anyone who harms them. In the daytime the Joey leads a rather somnolent existence, remaining comfortably curled up in a gum tree notch. At night they move about and eat the tender eucalyptus shoots which are their only food. Often, after dark, their heart-rending cry can be heard through the bush. A wail which is the very essence of anguish as a distraught mother seeks her lost offspring...