Word: goin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...specialty is Midwestern songs. The foot-tapping Golden Gate Quartet (TIME, Jan. 27), who went to Washington by taxi ($100 round trip), sang Noah and Things Are Gonna Come My Way. Negro Joshua White, who sings at rehearsals with a lighted cigaret behind his ear, sang John Henry, Man Goin' Roun' Takin' Names...
...original "Hennessy"-the constant companion and audience for Finley Peter Dunne's "Mr. Dooley"; in Chicago. Hennessy, for example, once observed that the country was going to the devil. "Hinnissy," replied the immortal Mr. Dooley, "F'r nearly 40 years I've seen this country goin' to th' divvle, an' if it's been goin' that long an' at that rate an' has got no nearer than it is, thin the divvle is a divvle iv a ways further off than I feared...