Word: wimmen
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...Mabel, wit' all 'is money an 'is big fancy cars an 'is wimmen cryin' about 'ow depressed 'e is. Gawd in 'eaven, am I supposed to feel sorry for 'im?" As always, Peter Sellers' power of observation and his ability to recount what he sees with satirical wit had saved him. But for one fleeting moment he had turned the mirror inward toward himself instead of outward toward a world of strangers. And suddenly he was himself as human and vulnerable, as comically real, as he makes them seem...
...auful. and sometimes Henry Shute spells just like yew an mee. so yew gnow it has two bee a perfickly disengenyewus purrformince. wel awlright xcept the gokes is sumthing feerse-like piching an old lunker eal plum in the senter of the ferst Congrigasionale Chirch picknic with the wimmen timing back summersets an having spells. wonce in a wile tho, it seams funny, four xample: "July 27, 186-rany and thunderry. i always thought a girl with red hair and frekles wood taist jest like dandylions when you bite them, i meen of course bite the dandylions. i meen when...
...ordinary literary standards, Guest's verse was mundane doggerel, written in soporific singsong and filled with synthetic back-country colloquialism. Guest's world abounded with wimmen folks, doctor folks, farmer folks and jes' plain folks. He extolled friendship and friends, God and worship, his wife Nellie, his son Bud, his daughter Janet, the virtues of porch sitting, of babies, tablecloths, wood-burning stoves and wooden tubs, sausage, and two kinds of pie (lemon and raisin). To Edgar Guest, death was "God's great slumber grove" or "the golden afterwhile." Samples of his rhyming...
...Chesapeake-Delaware Bay area (where 60% grow naturally) thousands of the industry's 65,000 workers have traipsed off to defense plants. To get men back wages have been bid up 15%. U.S. No. 1 oysterer, Bluepoints Co. (General Foods subsidiary on L.I.), will smash the immemorial "no-wimmen" tradition, hire women for shucking, packing, other inside work...
...Wimmen...