Word: misters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mister Five By Five, He's five feet tall and he's five feet wide. He don't measure no mo' from head to toe, Than he do from side to side...
...three months, while corpulent U.S. notables such as Fiorello LaGuardia wondered uneasily who all the singing was about, the U.S. public has been joyfully bellowing these lines into a major Tin Pan Alley hit. By last week Mister Five By Five, the work of Broadway's Don (Beat Me Daddy) Raye and Gene De Paul, was close to the million mark in record sales and still stood high on Variety's best-seller list...
Gradually, steadily, doggedly, the snorting cats-drove the forest back. Woodsmen logged the spruce, pine and aspen for corduroy roads over the bogs. "Mister, I thought we'd never get through those first 15 miles. We'd get so damn tired we could hardly drag home, but every afternoon when we got to the store at Charlie's Lake, the lady there'd have a cake for us. Boy, those cakes were good...
...Price Administrator Leon Henderson trudged with empty gallon can to a filling station. "Can't do it, mister," said the station attendant. "The gas has to be served in the tank of the car." Henderson: "I know, I know, I wrote those regulations. But they cover emergencies like this." Attendant (unmoved): "Read that last paragraph inside your book." Taxicabbing to his office, Administrator Henderson seized a copy of his 70-page book of regulations, heavily underscored the clause about such emergencies as his, sent the book, with his autograph, to the station attendant. Commented the latter, still unmoved...
...stepped out of Union Station into the bright afternoon sun, Manuel Quezon saw his great & good friend Franklin Roosevelt standing beside the black Presidential limousine. "Mister Presidente!" he exclaimed, arms outstretched. He shook the Roosevelt hand, then clutched the massive Roosevelt arms. In turn, he was almost crushed in a Roosevelt embrace. Houses will be decorated with Japanese flags and Japanese ideas of culture and enlightenment will be proclaimed, cooed Berlin...