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...different slang words were used. Examples: babe, bracelets, chee, crack pot, darn, dawgoned, diggity, flatfoot, framed, gal, gents, gorsh, heck, haywire, holy-mackerel, hyuh, janes, migosh, nope, nuts, O.K., phooie, scram, shux, tipoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Comic-Strip Language | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

...rushed into a Manhattan relief depot, screamed: "I want you should buy my wife a dress. Other women get Easter dresses. My wife she wants one. The city should buy her a dress." Thrown out by a policeman, he returned after ten minutes, shrieking: "Down with everything! Home relief, phooie!" Six policemen were summoned to carry him to jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Boondoggles | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

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