Word: oi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Child of Manhattan. There is a curious phonetic trait, found in certain parts of Brooklyn, which causes people to substitute the sound er for the sound oi. It is with one of these etymological freaks, a very pretty one called Madeleine McGonegal (Dorothy Hall), that Child of Manhattan by Preston Sturges (Strictly Dishonorable) is concerned. Miss McGonegal comes from a disadvantaged home in a neighborhood which she calls "Greenpernt." She is a dance hall hostess in a "jernt" named Loveland. At Loveland she meets a rich, self-contained young man who has come to see to what uses his property...
...which sell more tobacco than does Lexington. When Lexington was the largest tobacco market in the U. S., Kentucky was producing more tobacco than any other State. Now North Carolina produces more than Kentucky and Virginia, the third State in production, combined. , I am getting my information from some oi our State papers which make the claim that North Carolina has the largest tobacco market in the U. S., and produces more tobacco than any other state. This information is printed on the front page while the editorial page is devoted to a column "cussing out" the manufacturers of tobacco...
More mobsmen were inflamed by six members of the Cyprus Legislative Council who denounced Storrs for enforcing a recent order-in-council by His Majesty George V. It erects tariffs explicitly rejected by Cyprus' own Council. "Citizens! Greeks!" cried the disgruntled Councilmen, "KATΩ OI TΥPANNOl!" ("Down with the Tyrants!"), "KATΩ OI ΞENOl!" ("Out with the Foreigners...
Last week squarejawed, short-haired Editrix Suzanne La Follette, cousin of the Wisconsin dynasty, concluded that it was "only fair" to let her 7,500 readers know the plight oi their year-old magazine. On the back cover she announced: "... It may shortly be numbered in the depressing category of lost causes. ... Its founder. Dr. Peter Fireman, expected to be able to finance it until its income was sufficient to cover its expense. The depression has impaired his resources, so that he finds himself unable to bear the full burden. . . . We earnestly hope [that readers] will be moved to contribute...
...line always held when it had to. For three periods both teams played hard, tense, defensive football. Then came a play on which Navy overshifted a little, and Army Halfback Ray Stecker cut over to the short side with pretty interference and was free. As he passed the line oi scrimmage he fooled the Navy right halfback and the safety man by swerving.sharply to his left as they came in from the wrong side; then he skipped 56 yards down the south sidelines to the only touchdown of the game. Army 6, Navy 0. Receipts Or the jobless (via Salvation...