Word: yea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...debutantes had existed at that time they would have been heard to utter that highest praise of "Gosh that's swell" as Gilbert juggled the last high note. And once after too much port and Iolanthe the Vagabond went down Pieadilly with a poppy and a lily. Yea, verily, there were giants upon the earth in the old days. And that is why the Vagabond is wont to assume a certain cynicism towards the modern productions, and to mumble under his breath, "It's clever...
...letters advocates the idea with such remarks as "there are many weighty arguments for male suffrage" and "the educational advantages Vassar offers, in addition to no uncertain social prestige, have formerly had geographical limitations." The Vagabond sort of liked the last quotation, though the editorial prose rather impeded, yea, even obscured any true inkling of the subject matter...
Hard-squeezed British taxpayers who already contribute over $65,000,000 a yea to the unemployment dole winced as ' screw threatened to turn again last week. A special committee of the potent Trade Union Congress, meeting in London, blandly manifested to the Labor Government that the dole must be increased by paying the unemployed five shilling per week for their first child, three shillings for each succeeding child, from birth to the age for leaving school. A joker in the bill was the fact that illegitimate as well as legitimate children would draw the allowance. Agonized Liberal and Conservative...
...means to overthrow the Constitution, whether by intrigue, evasion or nullification." The Church "will stand squarely against any proposal that would in any way invalidate or weaken the outlawry of the [liquor] traffic." To approve this the 1,000 commissioners?half ministers, half elders?at Cincinnati stood up and yea-ed most heartily...
...aspect of college football which the Carnegie Report did not include, and upon which it said neither yea nor nay, is the system of scheduling the games themselves. Today the H. A. A. issues the Harvard football schedule for 1932, although these games will not be played until two and one half years from now, or until all but the present Freshmen have departed...