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...always 'The day I beat Army' or 'The night I knock out Graziano.' " Billy tells how Yonkel was once outjinxed by one Timothy Whitehead, who had lost $5,000,000 in the '29 crash. "That's diffrunt," said Yonkel, "winnin' from dat kinda fella don't mean I'm all washed up azza jink. I wuz outclassed, dat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cabaret Philosopher | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...replies, 'I ain't stud'in' 'bout car'in' you to no dance. Heah you is doin' ugly all de time wid dat sloo-footed nigger from over on Triumph and won't give nobody else none, den you comes axin' me to care you to de dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Delta in Detail | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...note of philosophic cheer was sounded, however by a "progressive five-year older," who callously explained, "Aw! Dat bunny was getting too old anyhow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Little Harvey, Hare's Heir, Will Cheer Nursery School | 4/20/1948 | See Source »

...Harvard, and ya gotta friend dat wants ta go ta Harvard. Only trouble is he's at Yale awready. Tell ya wet ya gotto do, or better yet, tell ya wot die guy C1878 done. He puts and ad in da CRIMSON, da number of da ad is C1878, an' he's askin' if anybody at Harvard wants ta go ta Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Will Swap Mattress for Bunk At Yale, Wellesley, Wothavu | 1/20/1948 | See Source »

...show's reputation probably stems from the fact that, although it has a deficient basic structure, it trims that structure superlatively. Jerome Kern's score provides most of the embellishment, with "Make Believe," "Ol' Man River," "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man," "Why Do I Love You," and "Bill" soaring over the footlights in the greatest procession of hits ever to gild a single production. And Oscar Hammerstein II has achieved in his otherwise drooping book a kind of graceful, turn-of-the-century nostalgia that dominates most of the evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 10/29/1947 | See Source »

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