Word: yo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sebastian Blennerhassett, wealthy Throgmorton Street stockbroker, addicted like all his ilk to eating lobster salad at Pimm's. In King's Bench Division before Hon. Mr. Justice Branson, outraged Broker Blennerhassett brought suit for libel against a vendor of the silly jerk-on-a-string tops called yo-yos. The yo-yo man had advertised that a man named Blennerhassett had gone stark, raving mad from diddling with yo...
Whimsical, the advertisement which blighted Broker Blennerhassett began: "Take warning of the fate of Mr. Blennerhassett, as worthy a citizen as ever ate lobster at Pimm's or holed a putt at Walton Heath. 'Sound Man,' they said in Throgmorton Street. But yo-yo...
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...Manhattan, Rubin Fisher, 26, told newshawks he had read 146,444 gas meters for Consolidated Gas Co. without a mistake, gave the Chinese for meter reader ("Hi-fo-be-yo"), the Italian ("meeta' read"), the Jewish ("gess men"). Wading waist-deep in cellar water to read meters Rubin Fisher once nearly drowned in a deep hole, once met a dozen alligators...
...modern France some garrison commanders punish with two days in "clink" a poilu found playing with a Yo-Yo, consider it a menace to discipline. Modern Yo-Yoing was launched in London by Baron Beaverbrook's Conservative Evening Standard which coached its readers in endless Yo-Yo tricks: "loops." "break-ways," "skinning the cat," "three-leaf clovers" and "Bow Bells." Most dangerous Yo-Yo maneuver is "around the world," in which the spinning top gyrates about its thrower's head in a circle which alternately widens and contracts...