Word: upped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WHY BRING THAT UP? (Moran & Mack)?Black-faced stuff for the vaudeville stage.
In Chicago one Benjamin Friedman was shot in the mouth while pursuing a gunman who had held him up. He spat out three teeth, chased on, wondered where the bullet had gone. At a hospital he learned he had swallowed it.
His more violent critics claim that Author Cabell's embroidered style serves to conceal a vacuum. They will therefore not be much interested to learn that in his latest book he announces what would seem to be his retirement: ". . . The Way of Ecben has appeared to its writer a thesis...
The best Keller anecdotes concern Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), her close friend. Clemens and Humorist Finley Peter Dunne were discussing Miss Keller when Dunne exclaimed: "God, how dull it must be for her. every day the same and every night the same as the day!" Said Clemens: "You're damned...
"They up and told police. Complaints were made in flocks. Police found that the 'lily bulbs' were nothing more than rocks."