Word: yes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the Georgia legislature. Only was there an echo from Alaska missing. Possibly the sight of Hurricane Gulch, Alaska, persuaded Mr. Harding that bunkers are trivial affairs after all. "But," protest the politicians, " he should respect the golfing voters. There are only 54,000 voters in Alaska-mostly icemen! " " Yes," replies the poor golfer struggling wearily around a crowded Sunday course, " there are a million golfing voters in the States- mostly icemen...
...irascible temperament obtained for him the sobriquet of " the American Prince of Wales." He said that "America is no place for a lady or gentleman to live in." Asked if he had ever been West, he remarked, "Yes, as far as Sixth Avenue." An African hunt in a steam automobile; a lawsuit for alienating the affections of another man's wife; an escapade during the War; landing in the U. S. with 50 trunks which took him three hours and $1,400 to get by the Customs Officials; a passport seizure by the American Consul in Paris; the importation...
HELEN OF TROY, NEW YORK?A musical comedy which suffered much from public overconfidence in the authors (George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly, creators of Merton of the Movies). It turned out to be just a real good show. The normal reaction: " Yes, it's good; but it ought to be so much better...
...great catchiness of the banana song is to be found partly in the brisk rhythm of the tune, but most in the magic of the phrase, " yes, we have no bananas." The root of the matter here seems to lie in a common grammatical perplexity, a perplexity over which many a person stumbles in common speech. How can you answer in one word, yes or no, to the question: " You have no bananas?" Often you will hear someone stammer "yes-no." The answer might reasonably be: " No, we have no bananas," with a direct logical opposite: " Yes, we have...
...follow. The wicked Brantly grew amorous. "His lips . . . resembled squirming purple worms. 'I'll show you!'" he snarled. He was a desperate man. They struggled. A marble statuette of Purity appropriately fell on Brantly and beaned him. Myra was safe-but she must flee-yes, at once -for if the police should find her with Brantly's body ... So she immediately went to the Plaza...