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...Yep," declared the dapper Cab, "five shows a day is a pretty big order. You've got to keep yourself in the pink to do it. No alcoholic lubrication for the voice, you know...
...eyes may note examples from Jack London. George Ade, O. Henry, H. L. Mencken, Zane Grey-even so unliterary an exemplar as the late great Baseballer Christy Mathewson ("yellow streak"). In the long list from "aasvogel" to "zooming" some U. S. examples: "Speak-easy" (1889): "Yup. U.S. Variant of yep, yes" (1906); "Razz [short for Razzberry]. Disapproval expressed by hissing or booing directed against an actor or other person" (1926); "Wow. A 'great success'" (1927); "Zipper" (1925); "Vamp...
...Yep!" retorted the Navy's chief drawing himself up importantly. "I'm sailing this afternoon on the Indianapolis." "When do you get there?" "Friday. " "What part of Cuba are you going to?" Havana - direct to Havana." "Have you special instructions from the President?" "No special instructions," and Secretary Swanson marched off to pack his bags. Within an hour big black headlines blazoned to the country the news that President Roosevelt was rushing his Secretary of the Navy to the heart of the Cuban crisis, presumably to command the U. S. naval demonstration already under way off Havana...
...notion I'm rich they'll give all their trade to my rivals. . . . Who knows what kind of a millionaire I'll make? I don't even know if I'll like it. I've never had any experience being rich. . . . Yep, it's all true enough, but I haven't got any fingers on the cash yet. I don't see any reason to be hurrying about it anyhow. It ain't going to help me in my work...
...back home and take up the burden of helping support the family" (in other words, he flunked out). But he did chance once to enter an Amherst classroom simultaneously with Cal, and venture that the winter was going to be cold. Cal "came right back, 'Yep.' Didn't waste a lot of time arguing and discussing. He knew!" On the strength of this intimacy, Lowell Schmaltz, vacationing office supply salesman, with Wife Mamie and Daughter Delmerine, drops in on "the old kid" at the White House. A suave morning-coated Mr. Jones welcomes him, gives gracious noncommittal...