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Word: goin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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That's why we're all goin' down to the Met this week and watch Hollywood whitewash the whole buryin' ground he's lyin' in. We're gonna see Tyrone Power grow a beard and act real tough. We're gonna see Lowell's. Nancy Kelly look mighty sweet. We're gonna watch Jesse live, 'n' love, 'n' fight, 'n' finally get mowed down by a skunk whose name ain't fit to be written down here. Mebbe we'll even enjoy ourselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/3/1939 | See Source »

Most of these rules will go into effect as speedily as the Exchange can work out details. Chortled Bill Douglas: "The new management and the SEC are goin' to town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETS: Rather Horrifying | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...nice goin', swivel hips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: FCC on Mae West | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...ciples. Dese here is mirkels I can do. Cain't nobody do dese but me. I cain't help carvin' I jes' does it. It's like when you're leavin' here you're goin' home. Well, I know I'm goin' to carve. Jesus has planted the seed of carvin' in me." Curiously, Sculptor Edmondson seldom goes to church, but likes to shout and praise God while carving. Unlike most religious Negroes, William Edmondson never quotes the Bible. "The oney time," said he last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mirkels | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...call to be initiatin any new fangled sacieties that your elders knowed about fore they ever thought of you. But tain no bad idee at that an' I'm for it. You kin put my name down as a charter member and since you aint goin to charge no nitiatin fee I thenk mebbe one or to other old timers thats done their share of stirrin in these parts 'll come in too. Write you bout that later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 4, 1937 | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

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