Word: ain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Schweppe, the Post-Intelligencer considered the boycott over academic freedom a "phony issue." The paper editorialized: "Presumably we should don sack-cloth and strew ashes over our uncultured heads for the "egregiousinsult' tendered Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer when that eminent scientist was rejected as a visiting lecturer. But we ain't agonna." The paper continued that "the notion that 'academic freedom' is involved ... is emotional and juvenile balderdash...
...extract money from the defendant's pockets just because he is a wealthy man . . . To me, [Dolly] and her father are despicable people . . . motivated ... by greed for money." Astor's lawyer, W. F. Parker, had more than agreed during the hearing, crying: "Your Honor, the truth ain't in [Dolly]. Astor denies her charges. And I don't think Astor is capable of telling an intelligent lie!" In the apparent belief that Dolly also was not a very bright liar, disgusted Judge Giblin awarded her an unhandsome $75-a-week support money, called...
Moans & Blues (Lizzie Miles; Cook LP). Some authentic rhythm-and-blues singing fresh from a New Orleans nightspot. Chanter Miles, sixtyish, sounds like a little girl in Lazy River, and at least half her age in Ain't Gonna Give You None of My Jelly Roll (". . . Pas un petit morceau de mon gateau" she chortles in the second chorus). Best item: Plain Ole Blues, a cumulative band number to which the irrepressible Lizzie adds a polytonal obbligato...
Having spent 20 years uv my life bein' razed up in the tuff atmosfere uv Clay Caounty's Brazil (pronounced bra as in brassière, z as in zebra, il as in ill), I think I can say TIME erred. The atmosfere ain't tuff, and the peepul ain't either...
...happy as a cat in January, as the butterfly in April . . ." The "Wonderful Guy" became "My Ideal Type." and "Some Enchanted Evening" was changed to "One Clear Night." Bloody Mary was still "The Girl I Love," but the punch line of the song, "Now ain't that too damn bad" was switched to "My tropical dream." When it came to "What ain't we got? We ain't got dames!" the translator settled for "What is lacking here? A woman...