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Word: gonna (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 »

...again (TIME, Aug. 15). While the President in uniform stands contentedly on the second (term) sack and a harassed elephant pitcher stands afraid to pitch lest the runner steal third, Mr. Manager Michelson runs out on the diamond shouting: "Aw quit worryin' about him! He ain't gonna run-that is he ain't unless he's forced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Head Examined | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...mornings later, after the mourners had shot off fireworks, got drunk, said how beautiful the dead boy looked, the body had hideously decomposed. A violin and a guitar played mournfully It Ain't Gonna Rain No More as they started in procession. At the cemetery the drunken schoolmaster, pronouncing a funeral oration, fell into the grave. Nobody laughed. A row of buzzards sat on the fence like undertakers. The violin and the guitar played Yes, We Have No Bananas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Central American Anecdote | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

Dean seemed to want to know more about "this guy Conant," so he was informed of the Hicks question. This was a little too baffling, however, and he was more interested in telling his interviewer about how he was "gonna mow 'em down" after ten days or so. The pride of Deanville also had no comment to make on the Littauer School of Public Administration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JEROME H. DEAN COMMENDS PLAN OF JAMES B. CONANT | 5/24/1938 | See Source »

...will if I feed it to him like women are gonna feed men for the rest of time...

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

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