Word: messe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That stumped him. "I'm in a helluva mess", he blurted out. "I guess I'll need my niblick to got out of this...
Meddling families and friends soon precipitated a hopeless mess. Alec ran off with the 16-year-old governess, had a child by her, finally married her apathetically after turning down Betsy's offer to come back to him. Betsy married her rich, aged, Socialist cousin Max. The children took sides, floundered precariously trying to adjust themselves to their parents' sorry conjugal relations...
...cabinets are full of Acts on maritime matters such as the Coastguards, expeditions against pirates, tariffs and duties, regulations for shipbuilding, ships' surgeons, officers' mess, recruiting, and situations for lighthouses and buoys...
...hell couldn't he drive a mile farther into Boston so we wouldn't have to clean up this -- mess!" remarked an irate fireman who, incidentally, supplied the liquid refreshment to expectant students...
...Steel Lips went on to say he took up the trumpet at the age of fourteen and worked first as a bugle boy in an army camp down in Louisiana. "The boys came runnin' fast for eats when I let go on that mess call." And now his trumpets ("Lil' Satchel-mouth") don't last up long under Louis' lung power. The intricate instrument of shining brass he plays today he's had only since 1933, and he's already ordered a new one made...