Word: ain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years," said Mr. Stonaker, "since I've been on the Princeton to Princeton Junction branch, and college boys have changed a lot since I started. They ain't so kiddish as they used to be now they're grown up like and act like...
Asked about hazing, the veteran railroad man replied, "There ain't no hazing no more at all, but they sure used to make it hard for the freshmen when they did. Many's the time I've seen freshmen rolling peanuts down Blair steps with their noses. There again the boys are too old now, too grown up and 'fastiddynus'! why the boys all look like President Hibben...
...Hell, there ain't no Santa Claus...
...Garvey's hopes soon faded. Last week, to a chorus of "Amens" and "Ain't-that-the-truths," Marcus Garvey made his farewell |speech from the top deck of the S.S. Saramacca, sailing from New Orleans to Panama, whence Marcus Garvey was to be shunted along to Jamaica. "His Highness, the Potentate" was in excellent form and spirits. "I leave America fully as happy as when I came," he elucidated, "in that mv relationship with the Negro People was most pleasant and inspiring, and I shall work forever in their behalf...
...coming in. Nick ? the cook ? goes to see Anderson at his house. He says: " 'They were going to shoot you when you came in to supper.' 'There isn't any thing I can do about it.' 'Maybe it was just a bluff.' 'No, it ain't just a bluff.' " Then Nick goes back to the restaurant. " 'I'm going to get out of this town,' Nick said. 'I can't stand to think about him waiting in the room and knowing he's going to get it. It's too damned awful...