Word: look
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back in the '70s my mother was going through Missouri when the train stopped at a little town. A small, countrified looking woman got on and took the seat in front of her. The conductor, taking tickets, stopped at her seat but she looked straight ahead. "Your ticket, madam," he said. She replied, "I have no ticket." He asked, "Your pass, then?" She looked him in the eyes as she held up the stump of an arm and answered, "This is my pass." The conductor took another look and kept on going. It was Jesse James's mother...
...Books (TIME, March 6) you reviewed a mystery novel entitled The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, with these words: "Detective Marlowe is plunged into a mess of murderers, thugs, and psychopaths who make the characters of Dashiell Hammett and James Cain look like something out of Godey's Lady's Book...
Frenchmen Herr Hitler likes, it was a distinct compliment to get a look at it. It took 3,000 workmen months to dig the road, bore the tunnel and shaft and build the Führer's mountain eyrie. The cost ran into millions of marks...
...stop using the word "free" in connection with a ten-volume Sex Encyclopedia offer (customers get them after they have paid up all of a $20 fee for lessons), stop stating that his course relieves skin diseases and constipation, tone down his claims that he can make his customers look something like himself ("World's Most Perfectly Developed Man" in a leopardskin loincloth). Hopping mad, Strongman Atlas gritted: "Why don't they leave me alone with all the important work I got to do in the world? I really think I'm doing the cleanest work...
Those who look with disfavor on the increase demanded by the A. F. of I. point to the permanence and stability of University employ, and to superior working conditions. The University saves jobs for waitresses intending to return after the summer recess...