Word: mayings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...memory serves me, Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty (no kin, unfortunately) had as his flagship the Lion and was leading five battle cruisers just before the battle of Jutland, May 1916. At that time the Lion was torpedoed and put out of commission, and Admiral Beatty transferred his flag to another ship...
...this part of the country, when someone jumps into a gap in the conversation with this remark: "I heard a most extraordinary story the other day"-anyone may interrupt with "Stop right there! I know what you are going to tell us. A friend of yours, or someone's sister, or your aunt's cousin, picked up in her car a woman who was walking wearily along the street. She got into the back seat and after a silence announced 'Someone will die in this car today.' After the driver had recovered a little, she went...
...latter dodge would be no great shakes as a revenue raiser. From the former, the most optimistic guesses would add $60,000,000 to the U. S. revenues. To Treasury experts, this amount may not be piddling, but it definitely is not enough...
...shoe fall where it may...
...Vander Eb your cake and eat it too," thundered Huey. "The team may be as good as Gould, but Alimi to state that it will be Harvard 32, New Hampshire 0. By the way, who was that Lacy I seen you with last night...