Word: yoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jemmen," he began, "you all might as well go on back fuh ain't no good goin' to come of what you is up to. Yu is jest goin' to make trouble and hurt yo'se'ves and hurt Howard University. How is you goin' to git 'propriations ef you carry...
...might be a Uncle Tom nigguh, but you young nigguhs ain't doin' no good for yo'se'ves or anybody else. I'se respected but you all ain't nothin...
...were you in the habit of eating lobster salad?" cut in Sir Patrick Hastings, eminent K. C. for the yo-yo defense...
Deft Sir Patrick Hastings soon had the Court's lips twitching. He read aloud the more puckish portions of the advertisement describing the efforts of a Blennerhassett to make a yo-yo perform for his children. He began with "deprecatory condescension. . . . The yo-yo was recalcitrant. . . . First it would and then it wouldn't. But the Blennerhassett blood was up. He was determined to make the little devil on a string do its stuff...
...Came the dawn and he was still there, disheveled and wild-eyed, with the yo-yo string still dangling from his trembling fingers. . . . Eventually poor Blennerhassett was taken away. . . . Today he is happy in a quiet place in the country and under sympathetic surveillance he practices yo-yo...