Word: tho
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Homer Rodeheaver. the late Billy Sunday's song leader, was the life of the party. He had a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South clapping his hands and shouting approval when he intoned: Repeal has failed. It was all in vain. The old saloon is back again, Tho' it's called another name, It's a hellhole just the same, For it damns men in their shame. . . . Another convention favorite, "Buy Dry": will not eat my waffles brown Alongside one who gulps beer down; I'll take my patronage away And hunt...
...fervent chant: Perish Jew! Get the Hell out! Blood-running noses! The best Jew is a dead Jew! Perish Jew! Suiting action to words, the Jew hunters plunged into night clubs, theatres, and cafés, dragged out every customer who looked like a Jew, beat him bloody on tho sidewalk, and slugged any women who seemed to have been with Jews irrespective of whether they were Jewesses or not. A spectator startled by these German deeds was Midshipman Ernest Wood Jr., U. S. Navy, son of a U. S. Army chaplain. "I was standing on a café terrace...
...DEALERS-Unofficial Observer-Simon & Schuster ($2.75). A capital ship for an ocean trip Was the Walloping Windowblind! No gale that blew dismayed her crew Or troubled the captain's mind; The man at the wheel was taught to feel Contempt for the wildest blow, Tho' it often appeared when the weather had cleared, That he'd been in his bunk below. -Charles Edward Carryl...
Earle Martin went rummaging last week for his old alpaca coat and soiled straw hat. On & off for 25 years they were part of his uniform as a newspaper editor. The coat was comfortable. Tho hat, worn winter & summer (with occasional changes for a battered felt), kept pressroom grime from the editor's bald pate. Now, after four years of blue serge and spotless linen as a Chamber of Commerce executive, he would need his old accoutrements again. He had just been hired as editor of the Cleveland News...
...accepting a beauty contest judgeship from Syracuse University Artist Flagg declared: "All sorts of colleges every year do this to me . . . and I have had to gaze on some of the most god-awful female mugs in this broad tho' narrow land. . . ." -ED. Chaunk v. Chomp...