Word: dee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coastal Negro dialect of South Carolina, part Huguenot, part English, part African. Sample: W'en oona duh de-dey, duh dee' duh un de-dey (When you are there, the deer is not there...
Schoolgirl. Last year Carman Dee Barnes, 17, onetime student at Ward-Belmont School (Nashville, Tenn.) wrote a book "all by herself" called Schoolgirl. Therefrom this play has been made with the help of A. W. Pezet, who learned his playwriting at Professor George Pierce Baker's celebrated Harvard "47 Workshop." He is a onetime editorial adviser of Horace Liveright Inc., publishers of the Barnes book...
Fishermen on the River Dee said salmon were being "shriveled to death...
Coach Fred. Mitchell of the Harvard University baseball team has taken up three players from the second University baseball squad which ended its season last week. They are Holand Dee Roches '52, outfielder, of Charlestown. N. H.; P. A. Ketchum '31, infielder, of Quincy, and L. R. Belknap '32, outfielder, of Beverly...
...Hancock Place near Grand Junction, Tenn. were "fixin','' as southerners say, to pair off, and a pair of quail is harder for a dog to smell than a bevy. Also, it rained hard, washing the game smells out of the air. The Setter Katie Dee ran a great three hours in the wet, but then the judges voted a postponement and the National Championship Bird Dog Trials were not finished until last week...