Word: gits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expect to make progress. It would take all her strength to keep from being carried back to France. Trainer Burgess began to whisper to "Pop" Ederle. Suddenly the butcher stepped to the side of the tug. "Trudie," he roared, "remember you don't get that roadster unless you git over." The watery reply was indistinguishable to the people on the tug. Mr. Ederle beamingly assured them that his little girl said she was going to "git her roadster." The rain fell harder. The seas were treacherous as a swarm of sorcerers. They did not wage fair battle, but disguised...
...failure to perceive any analogy between violation of the 14th and the 18th Amendments. A Main Street inter-racial dialog illuminates the difference: White Man: "Can you vote down here?" Negro: "Oh, yes, sah, I kin vote all right-dat is I kin vote if I kin git registered, but I has been trying to git registered fo' de pas' ten years, and I is always jes' too late or jes' too early." (Other States give the sceptre to the Nordics by making constitutional knowledge prerequisite to the ballot, in which case Negro political aspirants...
They some deep stuff in it an' I don't git it all. For instunce, it sez inside, Honi soit qui mal Y pense, which is woise then th' way I spell...
...people, Lark Fiddler and Granny Maggot is finely drawn. Gilly Maggot and his scrawny, belligerent, and faithful wife, Mag, furnish excellent character material. Here also the plot makes its appearance--a rather ordinary, but well-executed comedy plot which develops out of Beem's meddling attempts to help Gilly "git shet of the old woman" and indulge his senile passion for Goldy...