Word: sams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Times nor Lord Rothermere could pay tribute to his discretion. The opinions which the peer so emphatically disclaimed touched on England's debt to the U. Su For several days Thomas Marlowe featured what he called "Cold Facts on British Debits," There was a cartoon of Uncle Sam as Uncle Shylock. There was an article headed USury (the lifting of the two capitals was not accidental...
...Ferber's statement that she "desired above all to avoid further publicity," for the affair looked like a shrewd stunt to make Show Boat re-Ferberate through the land. Anyway, Tom threatened suit against her† for $100,000, and the name "Tom Taggart" was subsequently changed to "Sam Maddock" (same number of letters to avoid typographical difficulty). But 135,000 copies had already been sold and there had been publicity, desirable or otherwise...
...What the Sam Hill?" queried virile Pacific Coast he-millionaires last week as Seattle, Wash., news organs scare-headed that Sam Hill will entertain Marie, Queen of Rumania, on her September visit to the U. S. (TIME, July...
...Sam Hill," besides figuring in Seattle vocabularies as a euphemism for "the Devil," signifies paunchy Samuel Hill, millionaire husband of Mary, daughter of the late rail magnate, James J. Hill. Sam Hill, candid, reputedly confessed to Seattle pressmen last week that he built Maryhill, his estate on the Columbia River, "just to entertain a king or queen in," that he has been stalking royal guests ever since...
...What other name has Uncle Sam been called in recent British cartoons...