Word: yos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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-yos...
...Sheik Taj-ed-Din. "Excellency, the Yo-Yo is the reason for the drought!" they cried. "The up-and-down movement of these infidel tops counteracts the prayers of the pious for rain. Allah is angry! Rain will never fall again in Syria while the wicked play with Yo-Yos...