Word: youse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just can't seem to understand why she should train four long years only to receive $200 per mo. (-;$30) and have to tug & pull to eke out a few "thank yous" & "if you pleases," when she can be a hat-check girl, receive $200 a week clear, and be engulfed in a sea of gratitude...
...novels and many other works* during his 71-year lifetime that ended in 1917. But none sold enough copies to relieve him of the necessity of begging from his friends, from tradesmen, from strangers, to keep his wife and two daughters alive. Yet Beggar Bloy said no polite thank-yous to society. His writings alternated perfervid religious devotion with savage, four-letter-word vituperation against solid bourgeois values...
...that time Dr. Douglas Hyde ("make way there, yous, keep back, keep back, give him space there") was a famous, fine man. Playwright Sean O'Casey, now 65, remembers that Dublin gawked and said wasn't Hyde the grandest champion the glorious Irish language had ever known, although to be sure he hardly spoke a word of it himself. Indeed, a famous man, a "sure sage, with almost all the priests applaudin' "; and him a Protestant, too ("make way, there-silence-"). And standing nearby was Jim Connolly, "the renowned Socialist leadher," author of Socialism Made Easy...