Word: yon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upon it by different postures and by changes in body bulk. Joints devised for mobility have been re-adapted for stability. Muscles have had violence done to their origins and insertions and have suffered enormous inequalities in the distribution of labor. Viscera have been pushed about hither and yon, hitched up, let down, reversed and inverted. In making a new machine out of an old one, plenty of spare parts have been left to rattle around inside. There are no few evidences of ungifted, amateur tinkering...
Dear Nancy: For the first time in my life (I'm 19 years old) I can't go to my mother. I wouldn't tell her what I am going to tell yon for anything. . . . Until New Year's Eve, Nancy, I was a happy girl...
Mister Jefferson Lord, Play that 'barber shop chord, That soothing harmony; It makes an awful, awful hit with me. Play that strain, just to please me, again. 'Cause, mister, when yon start that 'minor part I feel your finger slipping and gripping at my heart. Oh, Lord, play that barber shop chord...
...Sarawaki! My heart is there with yon...
...love with a fickle society heiress while his faithful wife and partner goes back to "burleycue." Before Comedian Brown is brought to see the error of his ways he is given opportunity not only to sing and dance but turn a back somersault, take innumerable falls, chase madly hither & yon, utter his famed maniacal yell on numerous occasions and tell in baby talk an interminable story about a " 'little bitsy mousie." To show his dramatic ability, he also folds his great mouth into an expression of infinite sorrow...