Word: yer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gypsy. "Hold yer hats an "hallelujah!" the burlescuties used to bellow, "Momma's gonna show it to ya!'' Momma in the present instance is Rosalind Russell, and at 55 all she's showing is talent-but hallelujah! The old girl rips, roars, romps, rampages and rollicks through this raucous musical like Woody the Woodpecker's wife...
...good umpire"; of a heart attack; in Cincinnati. The old arbiter's rarest treat was once ejecting former Brooklyn Manager Leo Durocher before the game even began. Presenting his lineup, Durocher snarled: "What I said yesterday still goes." Replied Goetz: "And what I said yesterday still goes, too. Yer out of the game...
...like bruises, hair like last year's alfalfa. Puts the baby on the pot, the water on the stove. Dad sinks blissfully into stolen snooze. "Wake up!" squeals his darling daughter, knocking on his head with her knuckles-hard. "Ah, c'mon!" Mum squalls at the baby. "Yer not tryin'." Dad weaves toward the bathroom, battles an ancient geyser for five minutes, achieves a pathetic dribble of tepid water, starts to shave. "Breakfast!" Dad slumps groggily over his coffee. "Now don't be late, dear." Dad rises wearily, kisses his daughter goodbye. She draws back...
...most disliked lead ers in India, but there are several reasons why Nehru values him highly. They are old friends, and have been ever since Menon's 22-year self-exile in Britain. Son of a middle-class law yer, Menon took degrees at the London School of Economics, also became a barrister. In 1935, when Nehru visited England, Menon went all out to build him up as Gandhi's successor. He arranged annual Nehru birthday celebrations, set up speaking engagements in England, got Nehru's first books published...
...Mauldin attacked the military caste system without mercy. "Them buttons wuz shot off when I took this town, sir," growls a slovenly Willie to a spit-and-polish rest-area lieutenant. "One more crack like that," snarls a private to a major, "an' you won't have yer job back after th' war." Inevitably, this kind of enlisted man's license landed Mauldin in trouble. It culminated in a personal confrontation with Lieut. General George S. Patton in Luxembourg...