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...better bring that bomber back heah befo' you git co't-martialed. Go ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Listen to Mah Motor... | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

...gonna git co't-martialed and spend the rest of yo' days in Leavenworth. Go ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Listen to Mah Motor... | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

...great hit last week with A.E.F. boys all over the globe. In a new short-wave act called G.I.* Jive, short-waved from the Manhattan studios of OWI to all U.S. Army bases overseas. Master of Ceremonies Ives's friendly small talk, familiar recordings and songs on the git-tar were just what the first sergeant ordered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army Troubadour | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...Roosevelt's amendments might have appeased Mr. Hull, but they were no clarification. No one knew exactly where one's authority left off and the other's began. Mr. Roosevelt had, however, accomplished one thing: prodded the slowpoke State Department into acting with more git-up-&-git. On this basis Messrs. Wallace, Perkins and their BEW still had no cause to grieve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Appeasement | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

...Geechee said: "I got a thing to tell you. I got to have help." 'Geechee's man, Leroy, was serving a 20-year term for manslaughter. "You know people," said 'Geechee, "you can git him out. . . . He didn't do a thing. This other nigger was layin' for him. He went at Leroy and he bopped him one and Leroy be's strong and he made a pass at him and it done killed this nigger." Author Rawlings got Leroy out, gave him a job at the grove. Soon his manner was so threatening...

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

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