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That St. Clair pleyed the Martir to, yelept the Yard...

Author: By William H. Smock, | Title: Ballade | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

...curious modern parallel in the refusal of Norman Thomas to support the fusion ticket in New York City. There is an interesting correspondence on just this point in the Nation, between Mr. Thomas and Oswald Garrison Villard, who believes that so fine an opportunity for deposing the sorry shame yelept O'Brien ought not be overlooked. Thus he is not so fastidious as Mr. Thomas, who looks upon Boss Koenig as the undeniably unpleasant thug he is, chides Mr. La Guardia for camping among the enemy, even in the high mok-a-mok temp, and hints that Mr. Villard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 9/30/1933 | See Source »

...rough Riff Robin Hood is the protagonist in "The Desert Song", a tuneful expose of Mohammedan love-technique now on view at the Majestic Theatre. Yelept "The Red Shadow" (rhymes with "go, snow, or know") this brigand leads his turbaned tenors to several well-earned choral triumphs over Post 13 of the Moroccan Legion...

Author: By A. G. C., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/28/1928 | See Source »

...arrival of that far-famed native son, Mr. Thompson of Chicago, yelept "Big Bill", has been the signal for none of the customary fanfare accorded to the casual Greater Boston boy who makes good in the West. Even the elements assisted in a noticeable congealing process as the first citizen of that boisterous, windy, middle western metropolis blew into town. For there persists a feeling that Mr. Thompson has vulgarized bigotry and ignorance,--a thing wholly abominable to the Bostonian tradition of suppression. "More and taller flag poles", is "Big Bill's" opening contribution to Americana. "All the better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WELCOME HOME, BILL | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

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