Word: yes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best things in life are free" came the words, and the Vagabond felt relieved. A worthy successor to "Horses, Horses, Horses", "Yes, We Have No Bananas", and "Barney Google...
...Yes," said the girl, "the words don't mean much, but it's a pretty tune...
...Yes, I mean it. How do you expect me to examine your throat...
...Newton D. Baker. They protected the American Army from political interference. They insisted that promotion should be on merit and let the best man win. And that's what made the American achievement possible." (TIME, Sept. 19). Certainly neither of these gentlemen is what Mr. Bratton calls a "Yes man," and I believe they were in a somewhat better position to know what went on behind the scenes than C. B. Bratton was. Maybe not. The Encyclopaedia Britannica changed its opinion of Mr. Baker; but, as you know, it uses logic and not spleen in arriving at conclusions. Incidentally...
...Granta, published by the members of Cambridge University (yes, the Lampoon's critic is from Oxford) offers an "American number." And besides being American it is a very entertaining number. The jokes are the jokes of Punch, but the hands are the hands of John Held...