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Word: ain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stage presence, but unlike them she is not, primarily, a singer. Though she possesses a pleasant enough voice, her main ability is as a dancer, and more specifically, a comic dancer. The show offers her only one opportunity to do this sort of work, and the resulting ballet, There Ain't No Flies on Me, is the musical's best sequence...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: New Girl in Town | 4/19/1957 | See Source »

...heered right," said Peter. "We got fo'tynine percent mo' spirits as we got room fo'. People ain't so develish as dey used to be, an mo' of dem wants to get into Heaven. We's either gwine haf to lease eternity rights from de devil fo' mo' livin' space or else crack down on de applicants...

Author: By Calvin Trapp, | Title: Crisis in High Places | 2/26/1957 | See Source »

...wants is "not to be better than his friend Hemingway or his friend Dos Passes, but he wants to be greater than Cervantes or Dostoevsky. None of us were quite as good as those. We all failed. There is no degree of failure in art. It is or it ain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Visitor | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...ain't got a sister...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Latter Day Poetry | 2/13/1957 | See Source »

...ain't got a home...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Latter Day Poetry | 2/13/1957 | See Source »

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