Word: misters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used chiefly to give an inner core of golden harmony to the music of the great orchestra, an instrument sonorous and yet almost incomparably romantic; for you it "beeps and purls." But that is not all. You go on to the "saliva" with which it becomes filled. Permit me, mister, just a word with you. In the course of perhaps two hours winding of the horn, the player will have to pour nearly a glass of water out of its coils and crooks. This is not spit. Shame on you! The horn acts as a still. The breath...
Nothing so infuriates a minister named Jones as being called "Reverend Jones." Reverend is an adjective, not a title. If a parson is not a doctor (D.D. or Ph.D.), he is, like other men, a mister.* Last week the Ministerial Association of Lansing, Mich, formally resolved that "in addressing one another, or in referring to one another in speech or in writing, we discard all titles except that of mister." Lansing's reverend misters hoped that their friends and the press would stop infuriating them...
...other major-leaguer), 119 strikeouts in 149 innings (36 more than his nearest rival). Last year Feller won 17 games and lost eleven. Last week even the most conservative prognosticator predicted that the 20-year-old, $20,000-a-year Indian, who has only recently stopped calling his teammates "Mister," will win 25 games this year (some...
Other members of the cast are: "Moll," Miss Shirley Bernstein; "Mrs. Mister," Miss Lillian Wolfson; "Sister Mister", Miss Francis Morrison; "Sadie," Miss Sarah Kruskall; "Ella," Mrs. Lynn Gordon; "Gent" and "Junior Mister," Myron Simons '40; "Mr. Mister" and "Dick," William A. Whitcraft '39; "Cop," Rendigs Fols '39; "Reverend Salvation" and "Stevie," Kendall Smith 3G; "Editor Daily and Dauber," Rupert Pole '40; "Yasha," Arthur Szathmary 2G; "Prexy," Robert Rothschild '39; "Scoot," Jonas Muller '40; "Doctor Specialist," Alfred Eisner '39; "Druggist," John Wahlke '39; "Bugs," Robert Seidman '41 and "Gus Polack," Roger Henselman...
...Iowa Attorney-General Fred D. Everett: "They would have been wed had the pastor declared them Mister and Missus...