Word: sho
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department of Commerce deflated the four-year-old notion that U.S. sho pers have been on a four-year buying spree. Estimating retail sales for 1944, the Department predicted that the quantity of goods bought this year would be only 15% greater than in 1939, and 5% less than in 1941. But the Department's report confirmed what every housewife knows: sky-high retail prices make purchases of essentials seem like a mad squandering of money. Thus the dollar volume of retail sales this year are guesstimated at an alltime peak of $67 billion - up 60% over...
...character's name was "Lil Thin Dyme" or "Doleful Dogie," Sample line: "Ole Taxes Drainger, he done rode me down ... he done mowed me, and he done throwed me down. Ole Taxes Drainger, he sho' did slow me down. His pollatix is 'fulla trix-he herds us hix with bats and brix-Ole Sir Taxy Waxy-he sho' do make me burn...
Yeah, man, this sure was a queer country that Uncle Sam had sent them to. But shyly, last week in London, a Negro soldier admitted: "We sho' like it here...
...fact, no longer Singapore. Imperial Headquarters, with a go-ahead from the Emperor, had renamed the island, its harbor and its city Shonan. Sho was from Showa, which designates the enlightened era of Hirohito. Nan means south. Singapore was now Light of the South...
...sho' enough is!" was the cordial but somewhat surprising response the CRIMSON'S Chicago correspondent got when he phoned the Hollywood "honey blonde," of Life magazine fame, who has recently become Eileen in the Chicago company of "My Sister Eileen...