Word: goin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meals"; a "sizzle" is a general term describing anyone from a creep to a showoff. In Chicago, last year's "D.D.T." (drop dead twice) is still fashionable; the dangling "but," sounded with rising inflection on the end of any declaration or question, is new there. Example: "Where you goin', but?" In Detroit, high school girls now talk of the "goofs we go with"; in San Francisco a nice guy is a "good head...
...lonesome whoo-whoo of a train whistle wailed through the rushing chug-a-chug of a locomotive. Then a cowboy guitar picked up the forlorn rhythm of "I'm a-goin' where the climate fits my clothes" to introduce the treacly resonance of a radio announcer. In the oak-paneled commons room of Chicago Theological Seminary last week, 39 Protestant ministers and religious workers listened intently to the transcribed radio show that followed, How Christmas Came to Maggie Martin...
...claims Burke, "that women are much worse drivers than men. They spend all their time lookin' around at things, and none of it lookin' at the road. And when they have some one else in the car with 'em," Burke grins sadly, "there's no tellin' what they're goin...
Washington Monument. Said Biographer Freeman, in Richmond, where he is at work on Volume III: "Washington did not himself climb up on a marble pedestal, strike a pose and stay there. What we're goin' to do, please God, is to make him a human bein'. The great big thing stamped across that man is character...
Since then, he and the Natural Seven have inflicted on the nation Pagan Ninny's Keep 'Er Goin' Stomp (from Violinist Paganini's Perpetual Motion), Moe Zart's Turkey Trot, Cigareetes, Whuskey, and Wild, Wild Women, and such publicity stunts as advertising for an ugly vocalist ("preferably with two heads. Neither must be attractive"). Through it all, Red has been miserable. Now things are going so well, he doubts if he'll ever get out of the band business. Says he: "It's like gumbo in the spring. You just...