Word: sure
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drink of my whiskey and I wrapped him up in a tent and put him to sleep on the top of a bramble bush. . . ." Said a whiskered merry-andrew, "It was you and me that tied the bag around Johnny Tenner .... He was a great kid and he sure could beat that drum. . . . I met his girl a while back. She's married to a grocery agent now . . . funny, she should marry a drummer, huh?" The fireman's band played the tune of a bugle-call, "Soupy, soupy, soupy, without a single bean. . . ." Someone was saying...
...finally, what idea, what theme for Novel No. 100 would best please light fiction-readers right now? Why, the menace of Communism, to be sure. The newspapers are full of it every day and the Home Secretary lately held that raid on the Reds' London headquarters, no end spectacular even if it did not prove much. Typist, world-traveler, Communism ? the very thing. Hurrah...
...pride. "Tim's off again,"was the most indulgent of the remarks passed on the sidewalks of Dublin. But "Tim" did not give "two hoots" what anybody thought and everybody knew it. And even if the opposition has come to be better known and less associated with assassinations, "sure and to goodness thair's no raison at all, at all, why Tim Healy should stop bein' Tim Healy...
...Sure enough, that same evening "the quails came up and covered the camp." There was a heavy dew next morning and "upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground." The Children said, "It is manna,"- not knowing what it was. Moses said: "It is the bread which the Lord hath given...
...first novel, Glitter, got into cinema.* Little Sins looks like another sure-fire scenario but it is one of those rare books with more electricity in its pages than can ever be added to it in a projection room. Feeble Fantasy...