Word: yes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yes, David Lloyd George has dined many times at the Savoy but in the interests of accuracy-and the Savoy-it should be stated that on this unfortunate occasion he was dining, not at the Savoy but at the hotel next door, or so every London newspaper reported. This may seem a very trivial rebuke, and so it would be, had not your paragraph unwittingly slandered the one man in London who has looked after the hats and coats of more well-known people than anyone else in the world; and furthermore, in a period of 43 years has never...
...Pullman passengers may be divided into two parts, the "nervous," the "not nervous."* For the "not nervous" Mr. Warner gives silent thanks and hastens to anticipate the imaginary wants of the "nervous." The shade down a little? Yes, Sir. Magazine from the newsboy? Yess, Madam. Drink of water? Ginger ale? Another pillow? Right away?and the more testy the request, the more cheery the service. That is professional ethics. Invariably, the "nervous" are poor tippers. But Mr. Warner and his peers are nearly certain to make up their average of $1 per capita in tips from the "not nervous...
...Plague take the Literati! My stuff's not literature at all, more like a kind of fertilizer for future literature. Yes, I guess that's what I am, boys, a kind of manure. I know what I'm talking about. I used to write little pieces for the papers, book reviews, tattle, editorials on politics, the usual run of shad, come-day go-day palaver. Then something happened. I remember one day I got kind of a desperation, I put down some lines in a notebook, 'I am the poet of slaves and of the masters...
...fellows can make beds?" "Yes." "You can sweep floors?" "Absolutely...
...away with murder in fact they often do. In the movies anything can happen so Cecil B. de Mille decided to film the Bible. There were groans at the announcement that the man who wears the nattyist sport shirts in Hollywood and who has the most devoted elique of yes-men ever gathered, and that in a city where yes-men are as thick as section-men in Cambridge, intended to make a cinema version of the Testaments...