10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCISSOR BILL»
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And Scissor Bill he couldn't live without the booze, He sits around all day and
spits tobacco juice. He takes a deck of cards and tries to beat the Chink ! Yes, Bill
would be a smart guy if he only could think. And Scissor Bill he says: "This
country ...
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Staged Action: Six Plays from the American Workers' Theatre
Ta£ audience sings: You may ramble 'round the country anywhere you will, You'll
always run across the same old Scissor Bill. He's found upon the desert, he is on
the hill, He's found in every mining camp and lumber mill. He looks just like a ...
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The International Socialist Review
You may ramble 'round the country anywhere you will, You'll always run across
that same old Scissor Bill. He's found upon the desert, he is on the hill, He's found
in every mining camp and lumber mill. He looks just like a human, he can eat ...
Algie Martin Simons, Charles H. Kerr, 1915
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Good Times, Hard Times and Ragtimes
And Bill he says he'll get rewarded a thousandfold, When he gets up to Heaven
on the streets of gold; But I don't care who knows it and right here I'll tell, If Scissor
Bill is going to Heaven, I will go to Hell. Scissor Bill, he wouldn't join the union; ...
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Calf's Head & Union Tale: Labor Yarns at Work and Play
Joe Hill's song, "Scissor Bill" (first printed in the Industrial Worker, Feb. 16, 1913)
helped firm the term in labor speech. Hill, aware of then-current disputes on
evolution, branded a "scissor bill" as "the missing link that Darwin tried to trace.
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A Sketch of the Topography & Statistics of Dacca
Belonging to the Palmipedes, the Ryncops Nigra, or scissor bill, is one of the
most common species, and is to be seen in all our large rivers skimming with its
sharp edged bill the surface of the water in search of the smaller kinds of fish,
which ...
James Taylor (surgeon.), 1840
Hill invented MrBlock,the character who stupidly placed his faith in SamGompers
and theAFofL, and heinvented Scissor Bill,the bum too lazy and bemused by
capitalist propaganda to joinaunion. The thousands of strikersin the Wheatland ...
He's got this lump uh sorrer on the melt when the scissor-bill shows up. The
scissor-bill has lost a mare. George L., bein' meller of heart an' kind-hearted from
birth, pools with him in his mournin'. In a hour them two gents is so wropped up in
...
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James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American ...
The scissor-bill workingman, slaving over a machine all day, knows nothing of
the value of leisure and is even educated to think that there is something wrong
about it. As he became a homeguard, Cannon had to address how to live and
make ...
"I understand you're working for Mr. Ince at the moment?" "Right, I'm an extra
player in the new picture with that scissor-bill, Hart." "Scissor-bill?" "Old Texas
expression. Means somebody who can't throw a loop or do anything else the
right way.
