Word: yes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Goff, 83, the juvenile member howbeit the most infirm, interrupted his indignant thoughts, by retorting through his white moustaches and militant beard: "Yes, and the whole bunch of us may be alive and kicking around for years. We'd better trust to luck and see how the weather is." And he jedked forward suddenly, impatient with his greyhaired unsoldierlike companions...
...youth of a school greet a visiting governor of a state such greeting is not generally an informal one and it was no exception to the rule on this occasion; on the contrary, the governor was greeted by the pupils en masse, waving the Star-Spangled Banner and singing-yes, singing! Were they singing "The star-spangled banner . . . long may it wave," or "My Country 'Tis of Thee" or "The Red, White and Blue ?" They were not. They accompanied the waving of the Stars and Stripes with singing in chorus "The Sidewalks of New York." It can hardly...
...Hurrying, beaming, the President called to Mrs. Coolidge: "Look what I caught." "You never caught that fish," replied the First Lady. "Yes, he did, Madam," assured Native Oscar Otis. That evening the catch was announced to a group of correspondents huddled about the fire at Paul Smith's Hotel, by Secretary Sanders, who, however, did not disclose whether the fish was pike or pickerel. Experts estimated, writers visualized; and the news of a Presidential catch, 14 inches long, approximating three pounds, was clicked over the telegraph. The fish had been caught on the hook of a trailer from Native...
...South's faith in an inerrant Jefferson Davis, are likewise distressed by your "Colonel's" failure to perceive any analogy between violation of the 14th and the 18th Amendments. A Main Street inter-racial dialog illuminates the difference: White Man: "Can you vote down here?" Negro: "Oh, yes, sah, I kin vote all right-dat is I kin vote if I kin git registered, but I has been trying to git registered fo' de pas' ten years, and I is always jes' too late or jes' too early." (Other States give the sceptre...
...Yes," Mrs. George nodded briskly, "that's right...