Word: ve
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thanks boys, I've sworn off for Lent" said Governor Curley as the cigars were passed around yesterday noon up on Beacon Hill "You-know, sworn off to make up some of my sins", he explained...
...ve been noticing a gleam in the Old Woman's eyes for some time," he confided. "She watches me as I shave, as I light my pipe, as I tie my tie; she hangs around me all the time and keeps glancing into her compact mirror, starting at her profile on the side that doesn't show the huge wen on her nose, patting the stringy mass of gray hair that is left on the top of her head. Poor thing! She seems worried every time I go out. As a matter of fact she's taken to hiding...
...ve read about this mounted police business in the papers, haven't you? Well, I'll tell you what really happened. I had a shakeup in the department, just to keep the boys on their toes, you see. I put down that Sullivan, the Marshal's brother, was to be mounted...
...just a joke between me and Sullivan, but he made a mountain out of a mole hill and let it get into the papers. Now I've got to get him a horse somewhere. I have a couple of plugs up at the poor farm that sin't doing much, so I guess I'll let him have one of them. The trouble is, though, that I think more of the horse than I do of Sullivan, and I don't want to send it out in the cold to catch pneumonia...
...this paper," said the vitriolic mayor, changing the subject and pointing at the headlines of the local evening paper, "I've cut every city employee's pay 25 per cent. They can't expect to get as much when we've got the highest tax rate since Newburyport was incorporated. It can't be helped with this Roosevelt as President," Gillis said, as he lapped into an unprintable tribute to the first executive...