Word: yes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long time the 118 pounds of humanity calculated the distance. He took out a midiron?no, that would not do. A driving iron? Yes, certainly. No, perhaps not. A midiron. Why, yes. Clonk. "It's right at the pin!" shrieked Doyle, Lake Champion pro. And so it was. The little man scored a birdie three...
...been one great dramatic poem written, one lyric equal to the soldiers' songs sung during that war, nor one of high moral import. We are living in a utilitarian age, and the spirit that actuated that great war appears to have gone. "What have we now? Yes, We Have No Bananas, Take Us To the Land of Jazz, Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here-songs of the vulgar type. "The most dramatic and the most pathetic and most plaintive of all the war songs sung on both sides was Tenting Tonight On the Old Camp Ground. That...
...such an inconsistent manner. . . . The present session of the 68th Congress is reminiscent of the story of the critic who went by request to hear a certain politician make a speech. "Well," said the politician, after he got through, "well, how was it?" "Sound, very sound," said the critic. "Yes," said the politician, and then, hungry for more, he beamed and added, "sound-and what else?" "Nothing else," said the critic. To date, Senator Fess's only reply has been a declaration that the episode has shown that "Wall Street" disliked his attitude on the bonus. Upon his sudden...
...There's Yes! Yes! In Your Eyes...
Princeton, June 3.--A new form of German propaganda, linking together the names of Princeton University and the composer of the erstwhile popular tune "Yes, We Have No Bananas!" in a glaring expose of American materialism were discovered recently in a German newspaper...