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...socio-political thought a lecture which is to be given today at 10 o'clock in Emerson M by Mr. Arthur Baker Lewis the District Secretary of the Socialist Party. True the Vagabond does not know exactly what Mr. Lewis will speak about, but he can hazzard a guess and so probably can most of his readers. As for other lectures, he would mention the following...
...Sure I'm in love with her," said "Red," kicking the gravel. "I guess that's why I'm down here. She's a big actress now in New York, you know, and I'm nobody, do you see. I sort of want to be somebody or do something...
...Before retailers were forced to file income tax returns," said Professor Converse, "only one out of every 25 of the smaller merchants kept books that would enable them to analyze their business. . . . The other 24 were running their stores by guess...
...meet "De Boston Tea Potty", "Crissty Colombiss" and the perpetual menace of "Leetle Rad Riding Hood." But then perhaps the possibilities are limited. They are, indeed, between the Grossian and Burbigian dialects. As one well versed in the variations of 'English as she is spoke', this reviewer, at a guess, would say that the raconteur of Mr. Burbig's stories is of mixed Jewish and Italian parentage and that he learned his English somewhere in Amsterdam Ave. As a result the pristine purity of the true Yiddish-English, a dialect to delight the heart of the connoiseur, is lost...
...money back if the Liberals win 84 seats, and would receive an additional pound for every seat they win above that number. Inversely, if one sells Liberals at 80, and if only 70 candidates of that party are returned to the House, one pockets a crisp "tenner" ($48.60). To guess wrong in either buying or selling is to lose a pound a seat...