Word: gittings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just go off and leave a man's crop like that. . . . And so far you've got the best stand you've had in twenty years." "I don't aim to just leave no man," said Paw, "seems like you ought to be able to git enough hands to finish just this one crop...
Town life raised the Taylors' standard of living. "I've got to git me a raddio," said Paw excitedly one day. "Here Congress has done passed a law to give us WP & A men a raise and I never knowed nothing about it till this morning and they done it yestiddy. Ever'body else on the job knowed it but me." So the radio dealers got out their oldest sets, the second-hand-car dealers got out their oldest junk. All jacked up the prices...
...Songs by Captain Pearl Nye, a jovial, bearded, retired canal-boatman; a cook in Livingston, Ala. named Vera Hall; a fake blind man and his fake gypsy wife from Texas, who in 1909 sang for Mr. Lomax the now famous Whoopee Ti yi yo, Git Along Little Dogies...
What choice Acting President Castillo would make in Argentina's most pressing question was still his secret. "All solutions will become known as the Government issues new decrees," said he last week. Onetime President Justo, however, had already made up his mind: that the U.S. would "git thar fustest with the mostest...
...cattle into a boxcar, had left out a shipping pen (cattle are never loaded from the open range), showed a lasso dangling from the wrong side of a saddle. His most glaring mistake was substitution of English-style saddles for Western. Said a bystander: "You couldn't never git a cowboy on one of them postage-stamp things...