Word: madams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...golden land," and when Polly was twelve she arrived in America with everything she had in the world slung over her shoulder in a potato sack. At 16 she was working in a Brooklyn sweatshop. At 18 she was raped, or so she claimed. At 21 she became a madam by mistake...
...garages, furniture and woolen mills and shopping centers, but it has grown and prospered because of its over-the-counter rapport with the Australian shopper. Most of its 19,500 employees attend training school, learn to address customers by name when possible instead of by the formal "sir" or "madam." Myer's departments compete with each other to bring the customers bargains, and its basement frequently carries the same merchandise as upstairs at lower prices. When merchandise does not move on a strict timetable, Myer's either knocks the price down or clears the goods from its counters...
...down in that legchair Madam and open your gorble wide-your mouse is all but toothless...
...Madam: Alad! I have but eight tooth remaining...
...passage is from a playlet called At the Denis. It indicates, however, that Lennon may be capable of putting some sense into the gorbles of his readers; certainly it is logical to assume that if a Sir says "alas," a Madam might say "alad...