The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-04-20

In case you didn't look up that word
"buss" that was used in this column
last week, it's time you knew. It's an
old one, as found it in Republican
Of forty years ago.
Buss-to kiss. If that is it, rebuss
is to kiss again; buskin is kissing your
cousin; blunderbuss is kiss plastered
on the wrong party; omnibus is kiss
ing everybody, like Frances Filsinger
: said she wanted to do at the close of
the recent high school play, and one
who makes habit of it is a regular
buster.
Parsing the word buss, or kiss-it
is a noun, but is usually used as a
conjunction. 1t is never declined and
is more common than proper. 1t is
not very singular in that it is usually
in the plural. 1t agrees with me.
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A girl could have been choked to
death at the dance the other night
and nobody would have interfered.
Everybody would have thought they
! were dancing.
Beg Pardon
Pardon me, please, for taking credit
for getting that Alder street eyesore
fixed up. 1t was just the party next
door putting in foundation to keep
their house from falling into the
abyss.
But l still think it ought to be
cleaned up, and the citizens have only
two more weeks to get started on
their lawns or be exposed to the all
seeing eye of publicity.
And speaking of publicity, maybe
Grover King, of Wilson, will snap out
of it and quit trying to make people
believe he has lumbago. It's good
excuse, Grover, when you can get by
with it, but your friends are onto
you.
Nuisances
This boiler about beer.
Half the legal holidays
Three-fourths of the radio.
George Bernard Shaw.
Talks about the depression.
Lobbyists at the Maryland Legisla-
ture.
Lack of dough.
However, all the money must not
be in socks. Some of it is in milk
cans. We just recently heard of fell
low who bought an eighty acre farm
for twelve thousand dollars. (Heav-
ems no, not in Garrett county,. When
he and his wife went to town to settle
for it he took in milk can and he
dug down in it and brought out eleven
thousand dollars and then said to his
wife: "Why, we are one thousand
Short" and she said: "Why John,
you must have brought the wrong
can"
At the Last Court Session
Neil Fraley had asked the witness
a question.
81 think" he began.
"We don't care what you think; we
want to know what you know" re-
marked Neil the Cusser.
"Well, / may as well get off the
stand, them" said the witness. II
can't talk without thinking. I'm no
lawyer"
The Poor UnfOrtunates
One of life's poor unfortunates, the
kind who have been out of work for
ages, are hungry and just out of gas,
met an Oakland travelling salesman on
the Morgantown road a few days ago.
He told his story with tears in his
eyes and requested just enough gas
to get into the next town. give got
the gas" said the salesman, "but no
way to get it out of the tank, or moth
ing to put it in"
That's all right" said the poor
downtrodden unfortunate, "I've got a
can and a siphon down the road a
piece" And it was not until he had
filled two-gallon can that the sales
man began kicking himself in the
pants.
What racket, what racket. But
then the poor unfortunate might be-
come a gasoline distributor some day
if he can hook enough customers.
The Voice of the People
Such cut and dried meeting was
never before held than that which
took place last Saturday in Oakland.
Proposals that the Grand Goslin
wanted brought up at the meeting
were passed out to innocent citizens
to be read when occasion demanded,
and some were unable to make them