Word: whimper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...middle 30's; his story, told straight from the side of his mouth, is typical of hundreds of thousands but he tells it so freshly that it does not seem like an old tale. He starts in with a bang that never fades out to a whimper...
...nourishment that Alice Joy received at any meal. Drs. Bundesen and Fishbein also allowed her some coffee and tea (without sugar or cream) and large quantities of water. A week of that diet lost her 4½ lb., brought her down to 135¾ lb., made her whimper: "I'm hungry. And I'm tired. I couldn't lick a kitten...
Into the Hollywood Legion Stadium to see some boxing matches stepped jaunty, garrulous Walter Winchell, gossip colyumist for the New York Mirror. Up from his ringside seat jumped Mammy-Singer Al Jolson, whose big-eyed wife, Ruby Keeler, had started to whimper at the sight of Winchell. Smack went Jolson's fist and down went Winchell. Smack went Jolson's other fist and down went Wrinchell again. After other spectators, including a woman who wielded her sharp-heeled slipper, had driven Jolson off, word buzzed through the excited audience that Ruby Keeler was upset because Winchell...
...smalltown bankers grinned and bore it without a whimper. Now that the shoe pinches it is the big bank and the big banker that makes more noise than a pig under a fence. It is the big banker who goes to the R. F. C. and it is the big banker who started the banking holiday. The little banker keeps on and on despite the onus that has been given to his profession. Give the smalltown banker credit for a job well done. ALLEN D. RUSSELL Plymouth Savings Bank Plymouth, Mass...