Word: gittin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Edwin Booth were hard put for audiences in any town where "cullud opera" was playing. In 1850 the great Booth himself gave a blackface performance at Bel Air, Md. P. T. Barnum once corked his own face and appeared in such early favorites as Zip Coon, The Raccoon Hunt, Gittin' Up Stairs. Stephen Foster wrote his masterpieces for minstrels. John Philip Sousa, Gentleman Jim Corbett and George M. Cohan's father all did their blackface stints...
...shore war tickled ta find out this war leep yar. i yam awful bashful an i war shore hatin ter ax a boy to be a gittin hitched with me this yar, an being as how im ateen which means Ise gittin purty old which means Id best git me a man this year cause itle be fore more yars for i git a chance agin...
...aint a gittin much larnin in this hyar kollege sose if u wants ter git hitched rite away, i am reddy. Be shore ter let me no sose i can walk home ter git pa ter stop feudin for a hour or so. aint love jist the most wonderful thing? Suzanne Adair Williams, Texas State College for Women, Denton, Texas...