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Word: gits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...musicians swung into "Sugar Rose." Fats squealed with delight. "Git ready fo' de jam now!" The boys got ready, and went into a wild jumble of hot rhythm. A clarinet player popped up somewhere and made his instrument screech an improvised sing-song. Fats, his tremendous bulk bobbing in time, shouted hoarse encouragement to his boys. With a final, incomprehensible flourish by the saxes, the jammin' stopped. "Dose cats can take yo' socks right off yo' shoes," gasped Fats...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Fats' Waller, Lightfooted Leviathan of Swingin', Gives Unsolicited Jam Session | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...their plants. Second, many Ontarians believe that the aim of C. I. O. in their province is not only to organize General Motors but is also directed toward C. I. O.-izing Ontario's rich mines. It was in defense of these, they think, that "Mitch" tried to "git his fist in fust" at Oshawa. Finally, since Canada's Prime Minister Mackenzie King, fearing to antagonize Labor, has frowned upon the strident demands of "Mitch" that C. I. O. agents be excluded from Canada as "foreign agitators," Ontario's Premier smells an opportunity to attract to himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Mitch | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...Git along, little taxi-you can keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Play in Manhattan: Apr. 26, 1937 | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...makin' men in Nashville is makin' a law sayin' my marriage ain't legal. They've scared Eunice to death talkin' about sendin' her to reform school. I'm that pestered I can't plant my tobacco crop nor git no work done. All I know is they ain't goin' to take Eunice away 'thout it's over my dead body." Eunice's mother-a grandmother at 33 -explained that a neighboring family had "put the peep" on. her 16-year-old son Herbie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: What God Hath Joined | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

Religion is somethin' fo' de soul But preacher's belly done git...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Songs of Protest | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

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