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Word: dats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back a few such famous characters as Lillian ("Madame Queen") Randolph and Elinor ("Ruby") Harriet, and recalled some favorite milestones from their script life: Madame Queen's breach of promise suit against Andy (". . . We was engaged 147 times in one year . . . an' it woulda been more dan dat if we'd been goin' steady"); Andy's first meeting with Kingfish- played by Gosden (Andy: "Say, scusee me for protrudin', stranger, but ain't you got ahold of my watch chain?" Kingfish: "Your watch chain? Well, so I does. How you like dat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: 10,000th Performance | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

...dere? To Rienzi? Don't do dat, Sam, I'll talk. Just gimme a slug o' whiskey, tha's all. Just one slug...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deadline, U.S.A. | 4/25/1952 | See Source »

...Anna's past and present move at conflicting levels. Hence, after windy, uninspired love passages, O'Neill keeps writing harsh scenes that the play itself does not seem ready for. Anna is as much betrayed by the story as by Life. Both her washed-up father, cursing dat ole davil sea as a way of exonerating himself, and her lover, who should either be less Irish or more poetic, are hollow men who precipitate farce and even bathos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Jan. 21, 1952 | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

What, who dare say Mister Johnson 'fraid? Johnson say, what dat mean dat word 'fraid? What dat mean 'fraid? Is it good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blithe Spirit | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

...intact, with 25,000 Chinese, Malays, Indians and natives at the base, 80 Europeans at the top. The only revolutionary the Keiths had to keep tab on was little Georgie Keith, 7. To Mrs. Keith's dismay, he began spouting pidgin English: "Aw, Ma, dey all spik like dat!" "But that's not English you are talking. You must stop." "O.K., Mum. I no talk like dat any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Back to Borneo | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

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