Word: yes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...LADY FROM DUBUQUE--Her nephew wishes she wouldn't. Waxes benevolent at the alphabetical dexterity of the band; My, she opines, they certainly know their P's and Q's. Yes, replies the long suffering relative, and their D's and H's. Her own belief is that the young lady in front has been taking rum for a cold and consequently has grown evorish. Slow, heavy, this number can he relied upon to hold her own by sheer onderous weight...
...Panora, Iowa, where he had charge of the broom and polish rag. He flourished; made his banking way to Des Moines, then to Chicago. President Taft in 1909 wanted him for secretary of the treasury. He refused. George is known as the quickest and the firmest to say yes or no to a banking matter...
...Yes, I've got some great steeds, bah Jove. There's Charley I've had him ever since old John Ringling brought me and the rest of the family to this country 15 years ago. And then, there's Thunder he was born in a terrific storm; that's how he got his name. He was nearly killed several years ago when he reared and struck his head going into a box car. It was just midnight on New Year's Eve some New Year present, eh wot? The other two are Ned and Johnny. Those horses are just like...
...Yes sir! It was murder in the first degree", declared Bob Lampoon, the incomparable jester, grand vizier and high lama at all of Lampy's festive functions. "When vandals slunk down under cover of a black and windy night and sever the life's blood of a tree, cherished by me for over three years, it is then time for the Cambridge Police to send in riot calls, and to deal death in the Brattle Square Police Station without the fruitless efforts of a trial...
...kill off that old fatty" So I kept it an and fussed around with my hands and feet, and she'd split for sure. Then after the show when the spot man was down backstage, he came around and said. Hey Jack did you hear that woman upstairs? 'Oh yes' I said, kinds modest, you know, because I didn't want to seem stuck-up over my line. "Well you know what it was about don't you?" 'No, what was it? I asked, looking modestly credulous...