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...tank commander said icily: "Madam, I'm not fighting women...
...still carries a large lump in back of his left ear from approaching a pretty girl in Times Square during the '20s. "Good afternoon, madam-" he had no more than begun when, blam!, something pile-driving hit him from behind. Jimmy turned over and literally threw a punch from the pavement. After the cops had pulled Jimmy out of the crowd and heard his explanation, they told him to beat it and returned to chafing the wrists and temples of the girl's escort...
...meaning of all but the yf, which they could not understand. The Lady propos'd calling her Chambermaid: for Betty, says she, has the best knack at reading bad Spelling of any one I know. Betty came, and was surprised, that neither Sir nor Madam could tell what yf was. 'Why,' says she, 'y f spells Wife; what else can it spell?' And, indeed, it is a much better, as well as shorter method of spelling Wife, than by doubleyou, i, ef, e, which in reality spells doubleyifey...
When the Board was created, greatest fear was that Secretary of Labor Perkins, jealous of her prerogatives, would not certify enough labor disputes to the Board to keep it busy. She was criticized for hanging on too long to the Allis-Chalmers fracas, the coal dispute, others. Whether Madam Perkins listened to these criticisms or not, she soon changed her ways, fell into the ways of other mothers. When the children started wrangling in the great industrial backyard, she did what she could with the smaller ones, but told the Board about the big ones and held her ears while...
...only Congressmen but labor's advocates last week denounced the San Francisco shipyard strike (TIME, May 19). When even Madam Perkins held up her hands in horror, it became 1941's most unpopular walkout...