flying cannon equipped Spitfires V’s mainly on ‘Jim Crow’ operations (operational Patrols along the home coastline intercepting any hostile aircraft and looking out for any invasion forces).
A Jim Crow audience.
As its speed increased, and the black masses of chaparral went whizzing past on either side, the express messenger, lighting his pipe, looked through his window and remarked, feelingly:What a jim-dandy place for a hold-up!.
get uppish with me, sonny Jim: you're as dead as he is.
... meant to be. They quarrel and Jim stomps off, but then he finds out through the grapevine ...
... So Jim goes to the hospital nine months later, smashes the hospital window, kidnaps his own ...