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...just been to a party. I didn't have much to drink, so along about two-thirty I get bored, and I go look for my roommate, and I say to him, "Charley," I say, "1ct's scram. Lulie ain't here and things're too damned tame." But my roommate, Charley's his name, he says, "Oh, go dance with the hostess then." Only he says it sort of ominous-like. So I ask one of these flunkeys with a white flower in his button-hole which is the hostess. And he points over to a girl that looks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Your Uncle Smugly Says | 10/21/1937 | See Source »

...Yonkers, N. Y., Rev Verlynn Sprague was having his shoes shined by a young bootblack. One shoe finished, a policeman ambled by, ordered the boy to "scram." The boy departed. Mr. Sprague protested he was not satisfied with half a shoeshine. The policeman accused him ot interfering with an officer in performance of duty, arrested him for disorderly conduct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 23, 1937 | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

...Scram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For Oglethorpe | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

...late Ringgold Wilmer ("Ring") Lardner once listed what he considered the ten most beautiful words in English. They were: gangrene, flit, scram, mange, wretch, smoot, guzzle, McNaboe, blute, crene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mind Study | 9/17/1934 | See Source »

...poor district of Chicago. Crawling through a broken skylight they came upon a 2½-year-old girl huddled on a pile of debris, her naked body black with frostbite. The boys whispered excitedly. Then an older boy, bold-eyed and sturdy in long pants, entered the ice house. "Scram, you!" he growled. The small boys ran off to the police. It did not take them long then to track down George Rogalski. The little girl, Dorette Zietlow, who had been missing for two days, was rushed to a hospital. That night she died. At her funeral, few days later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Moron Campaign | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

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