Word: mah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Taxes abolished included those on jewelry, firearms (except pistols) and ammunition, mah jong sets, pipes, cameras, films, art works, yachts, slot machines, brokers, pawnbrokers, etc., deeds and conveyances...
...agree with some scientists that tales of them arose from our forefathers' reminiscences of brontosauri and kindred fauna. But he is very polite and does not press his own ingenious theory until the very end. There he also says a word about four modern dragons? Respectability, Bigotry, Cant and Mah Jongg...
...want any smart Alec tryin' to teach mah child that man descended from a tadpole or a monkey. . . . When a man gets so smart that he cain't believe the Bible, he's jest too smart to know that he's a fool...
...Repeal the "nuisance" taxes: on cameras, films, firearms, shells, cigar-holders, pipes, slot machines, mah jong sets, sculpture, paintings, jewelry, bowling alleys, shooting galleries, yachts, playing cards. Also taxes on automobiles, motor vehicles and accessories...
...addition to mah jong, which was far and away the most popular game with everyone, we played a lot of cribbage. Fortunately or unfortunately as the case may be our radio brought us no word of cross-word puzzles and we continued in blissful ignorance...