Word: wing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over there to Tokio and flatten them all out just like that", said Wing Kee, expert Cantabridgian laundryman in an interview yesterday, punctuating his remarks by tearing buttons off a shirt he was operating upon; one button for a comma, two for a period...
...asked what he thought about the armistice between China and Japan, he replied, "Saturday." When the interviewer attempted to explain that he was talking about world events and not the time of his shirts' reappearance the celestial said, "Thursday, then." The conversation seemed to have reached an impasse, but Wing followed up with a brisk right to the chin, "They got big guns, hey? Twelve inches! Some big guns! We only got little guns, so." The washer of the linen demonstrated the size of the Chinese guns with his hands, leaving the iron to rest on a shirt...
When they got Dan into prison at last, the British tried to change him from one wing of the prison to another. But Dan would not go. Not until they lugged in a machine gun and trained it on Dan. That decided him to walk. In jail he was elected a Deputy in 1923, so why should not Tipperary elect Dan Breen...
...them Premier Laval took the electoral reform bill (containing not only women's suffrage but broad electoral reform). In the Chamber it had passed by a vote of 278 to 0; but due to the absence of Left Wing Deputies, there was doubt of a legal quorum. Nevertheless Premier Laval thought the Senators might as well talk about the bill, offered February 19 as the date on which talk should begin...
...outdoor rink starting at 4.30 o'clock. The Hanoverians will be without the service of Nissen, Veteran right defenceman, and may be unable to use Bennett, the other Green defender. Harvard likewise is short-handed and Coach Stubbs is taking along C. C. Pell, Jr. '33 as left wing in the second forward line to replace Hasler who was hurt in the last Indian fracas...