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Word: goin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...goin' do as we please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Joree-jaw | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

Dropping politics into the wastebasket along with another letter, "Bossy" withdrew education again. "If I'd wanted to, I coulda been one of the best college students goin'. I got the bug on law. I'd really show some of them buzzards if I was a lawyer. Prohibition, now I used to argue for prohibition, but it's just a damn farce the way it's going now. We oughta be free, and do what we want to. What's the Statue of Liberty for, anyway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Bossy" Gillis Is Mayor of Newburyport When He Answers the Telephone-"Big Gun" Fires Volley at National Politics | 1/25/1928 | See Source »

...Torchlight processions of Republicans in the summer and fall of 1860 sang "Old Abe Lincoln Came Out of the Wilderness": Old Abe Lincoln came out of the Wilderness, Old Abe Lincoln came out of the Wilderness, Old Abe Lincoln came out of the Wilderness, Down in Illinois. "Man Goin' Roun' " came from Columbia, S. C. A homely, black woman sang it: There's a man goin' roun' takin' names, There's a, man goin' roun' takin names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Song | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

...took my mother's name, An' he leave my heart in pain, There's a man goin' roun' takin' names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Song | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

...Springs, Ark., were stirred one evening last fortnight as they had not been stirred since April 6, 1917. A pack of newsboys, coursing through the crowded streets at cinema time, were baying like gutter beagles, "UX-try, UX-tree-e! 'Clare War on Chine! M'rines goin' tuh Chine! UX-try! UX-tree! War wit' Chine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: War! | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

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