Word: misteres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only work for Mister...
Franklin Roosevelt's personal representative was covering a lot of ground. Exactly three days after he made a radio speech in London, promising immediate aid to Russia, the skinny fellow who is called by London's pert cockneys "that there Mister Hurry Upkins" turned up at the Kremlin in person. He flew to Moscow to find out just what Joe Stalin wanted, and how to get it to him in a hurry...
...ready to share her sufferings. ..." Commented the Daily Express' subacid Columnist Paul Holt: "[Wodehouse is] one of the best loved Englishmen alive, [but] he is now using quite a short spoon to sup with the devil. . . . Life in hell is good to live, I guess, if you are Mister Lucifer's personal guest...
Later on, among the wide-open delights of pre-war Beale Street, came Mister Crump and Memphis Blues. He tells the familiar story with vivid authority, sorely tilts against "Mr. X-" and "Mr. Z-who gypped him out of the copyright to Memphis Blues...
...saying, Thanks, Mister Roosevelt, we're proud...