Word: yon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yon sing-dance-or act? If you can, it's a well established fact That Uncle Sam will take you in- Break you in- Make you in-to Anything you could desire. Uncle Sammy wants to hire- Actors with dramatic fire- Singers who to fame aspire- Dancers who can kick-but higher. Uncle Sam will take a flier- Which is why we all inquire- "Say Can You Sing-Dance...
Like two dogs who feel they have an urgent appointment with a rabbit, the two major party candidates for President last week coursed hither and yon, frantically nosing crisscross tracks which to their nostrils had a delicious odor of election. Every time the scent turned and twisted, the two hounds raised their heads and bayed for the delectation of the countryside. Alf Landon's course, starting from Philadelphia, doubled back to Pittsburgh, veered to Newark. N. J., swept into Manhattan (where at the old-fashioned Murray Hill Hotel he met Al Smith for the first time), dashed...
...merry widow of Weymouth isn't the only one who has gone to pieces over the strewing of anatomical members hither and yon in Boston harbor. Probably since the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, or at least since Jessic Costello cleaned her boiler, Boston has never had such a good time in its traditional macabre manner. But the current scavenger hunt for the missing "mutilated torso" has them all beat for journalistic interest. It is certain that if Charles Dickens were living today his words would be, "Oops, there goes Mrs. Asquith's head again!" The different angles from which...
...service book: "The growing practice of cremation is to be commended, especially in large cities. Not infrequently cremation takes place in advance of the funeral service. This usage helps to minimize the physical aspect of death and to centre the attention upon the spiritual message of the service." Dr. Yon Ogden Vogt of Chicago's First Unitarian Church, which sells niches for urns in its cellar walls, told the crematists in Chicago last week: ''Cremation . . . avoids the considerable expense of a headstone and still greater cost of a monument...
...other less voluble characters who arouse as much sympathy: notably his patient father. Once when Espen muttered that he had not asked to be born. "Father looked calmly at me, stroked his beard, and said in an even voice: 'Nor did anyone, I believe, ever exactly send for yon in particular...