Word: gittings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commanded were more human if less humane. One Confederate private, rummaging the battleground during a truce after Fredericksburg, was reprimanded by a Federal officer for salvaging a rifle; the officer said that was against the rules. Said the butternut veteran: "Never mind, I'll shoot you tomorrow and git them boots." That Lee's example of considerate politeness sometimes had its effect on his men was shown by one of them who was struggling to get a shoe off a Federal corpse. When the supposed corpse lifted its head reproachfully, the soldier replaced the shoe, saying, "Beg pardon...
...might as well go on back fuh ain't no good goin' to come of what you is up to. Yu is jest goin' to make trouble and hurt yo'se'ves and hurt Howard University. How is you goin' to git 'propriations ef you carry...
...Purim, masquerading used to be a universal practice, with shpieler (players) going from house to house, to rigadoon and sing: "Hcint is Purim, morgen is ois, git uns a groshen, und varft uns arois." (''Today is Purim, tomorrow it's over, give us a penny and send us off.") The custom of Mishloach Monos (gifts to friends and to the poor) introduced a messenger called the Shalach Monos Tregger who carries the gifts from house to house. Today many a Jewish family celebrates Purim by giving a jolly party, eating Haman Taschen (poppyseed cakes) and reading...
...Coleman at Chester." His pay as Senator: "It was regular. I got some more when I voted fuh some of the bills." Prohibition: "Now on this prohibition question I'm all right. . . . Fuh two reasons. Fus' we needs a little liquor and second, dem what wants it gits it whether they buys it or steals it." Why he left the Senate: "Cause o' de Ku Kluxes. I was staying at a colored hotel when word comes to me that de Ku Kluxes wuz killin' all de nigguhs, some by just plain killin', some by drownin...
...meaning having lost its mother and showing the effect in lack of growth and poor proportions. Cowboys when driving a herd find the small weak animals in the rear of the herd as they weaken and drop back so that in their songs in speaking of "roll along or git along, little dogies" they refer to the last of the herd commonly called the "drags" which have to be urged to keep up with the herd...