Word: mister
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...depression. To the company of the old lady with the remarkably heavy bundle have joined themselves amateurs of all descriptions, young and old, tough and tender, sober and heary, but with the one symbol of their Freemasonry, the refrain "Could jalemme have a dime for a cuppa coffee Mister?" which of these poor wretches are deserving are merely down on their luck, and which are moochers, beggars pure and simple, the casual passerby can hardly determine. If that casual passerby have any of the elements of humanity in him he cannot give all a curt refusal...
...radio and instrument-panel light from the rear cockpit, zig-zags the ship every which way for a few miles, pulls it up into a stall, lets it fall off into a spin. At that instant he switches on the instruments, calls through the speaking tube: "All right, mister, take me to Newark...
...Chicago in 1919. He was 101. One of his sons, Al Schoenberg, a tailor's assistant who was frequently discharged for his habit of organizing noisy quartets, took to singing on the stage. He chose the name of Al Shean, became famed with the late Ed ("Oh, Mister") Gallagher. Al Schoenberg's sister Minna was a Manhattan fur and lace worker. She married an Alsatian immigrant named Samuel Marx who frequently sat up all night playing pinochle in his tailor-shop. Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Marx had five sons: Leonard (Chico), Arthur (Harpo), Milton (Gummo). Julius (Groucho...
...Prior to the convention, the National Committee had voted to seat Mr. Tolbert & delegates (TIME, June 20). After the Credentials Committee's decision was read and carried on the convention floor. "Tieless Joe" was found mumbling: "See what Hoover gets out of his lily-white South! Jes' you wait, mister, and see what he gets...
...good odor, one can smell her from far away; it is for this reason that there is fresh air out in the country. The mister cow is called a beef; he is not a mammal. The cow does not eat much, but what she eats, she eats it twice, that is why she has always enough. When she is hungry she chews a cud and when she does not say anything, that is that her stomach is full of food...