Word: gors
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...minutes later, pajama-clad Knapp padded into the confusion of his study and mumbled "Gor...
...would have been dead at 19, when he tried to round off a rag-picking childhood and 15 years of poverty-pinched wandering, by a bullet through his lung. An operation saved him. He began to write for provincial newspapers, under the name Maxim Gorki (from gor'kii, "the bitter one"), then sociological novels and plays. He joined the Social Democrats, later the Bolshevist wing, was arrested on Bloody Sunday (January 22, 1905) in St. Petersburg. Exiled till 1913, he lived in Capri, corresponding with Lenin and working for the labor movement. After the Revolution he dedicated himself...
...Downing St. The little knots grew until Downing Street had to be cleared by police. The crowds overflowed into Whitehall and down to Trafalgar Square. They were anxious but good-humored. Each Cabinet Minister as he arrived was greeted with shouts: "Good Old Snowden!" "There's Jimmy! Gor Blimey...
...they packed and sweated in, to learn about sinnin' from 'er. Somehow plump Mrs. McPherson's soaring contralto failed to please. Perhaps the trouble was her accent. Since she is a woman the Lower Classes did not criticize her personally; but several Gallery Gods bawled that Gor' blymy her assistant evangelist didn't sing so an Englishman could understand him! Biting her lip and pink with vexation, Aimee McPherson shrilled: "He isn't an American at all! He lives in London. He's an Irishman!!" Even after this explanation and much powerful preaching...
...Gor! Pipe the sailors! Comin' right towards...