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Word: askin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this luncheon from hearsay or hunger, but because I was asked to talk. While drovin' and delvin' into de subject of Prohibition, I digs up plenty of data- not disa and dat-a-but data, data. And what do I find out, I'm askin' you? I finds out that I didn't have anyt'ing to do wit' passing dis Eighteent' Amendment. ... I finds out dat none of my friends has anyt'ing to do wit' it. So I don't see how dey ever could have passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 22, 1933 | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

...indication that the American public does not desert its sport idols altogether. And another, thing! Nearly every speed cop when he catches up with a speeder asks "Hey, d'ya think yer Barney Oldneld?" That is, of course, when they're not askin': "Whezdafire, huh?" and "Wher' th'lya goin'?" You know me, BARNEY OLDFIELD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 8, 1931 | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

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