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...Comic-strip artists use word distortions for definite purposes - for humor, to indicate common slurrings, to convey the sound of a dialect. Examples (from Smilin' Jack and Popeye): a-gettin' , ah'm, aihport, fergit, yam (for am), ast, certingly, goner (for going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Comic-Strip Language | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

...Comer, Goner. In Chicago, E. J. Comer, author of a book warning the public against deceitful salesmen, was indicted for using the mails to defraud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 15, 1943 | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

...gets out of her element and tries to sing "Mississippi Mud," the handwriting is on the wall. Dinah may be able to stave off the ash-can for as long as five years; Hollywood may help. Unless she develops a more positive personality and style, however, she is a goner for sure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWING | 11/5/1942 | See Source »

...seasick, tried to get up. As they crawled forward, they were knocked down again. Concrete popped like popcorn; large chunks broke loose, whistled through the air. As the roadway buckled over on its side, Student Brown looked down at the water 190 feet below: "I thought I was a goner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WASHINGTON: Narrows Nightmare | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...toward me. The object hit the ground and rolled between my feet. I pushed a Japanese civilian away and turned around just as the object exploded. A piece of shrapnel cut through my coat and hit my police card. I'm pretty lucky. I thought I was a goner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Victory, Bomb, Invasion | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

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