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...never read 'em. I'm a constructive kinda person. Don't believe in readin' destructive kinda trash. The way I figger is those critics came up against a play that was so fine, so sincere, so puhfick they knew there wasn't anything they could write in praise would add to it. So they went off and panned it. See what I mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Puhfick Explanation | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

Author Rawlings wondered why Mr. Martin would take a scrawny sow. Mr. Higgenbotham explained. "Well, when you figger on a sow, you figger on more than a sow. You buy you a sow, and directly you've got a litter of pigs to boot. . . . Now I'm carrying that sow there to Mr. Martin's boar hog. You know sows?" Mrs. Rawlings said no. "Well, a sow's peculiar. Times, she'll take, and again she'll not take. It all depends on the moon. Now last moon, she'd not of took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Enchanted Land | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

...roast he'd press her figger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PUFF POETICAL. | 3/7/1879 | See Source »

...knew a "bit to figger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEBSTER WORCESTER, | 4/9/1875 | See Source »

...even could a little "figger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEBSTER WORCESTER, | 4/9/1875 | See Source »

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