Word: gotta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pullman steel. Passengers jerked themselves out of their various shades of somnolence, as the train stopped. Curious, they got their noses dirty trying to look through the screens. They heard one Blanche S. Brookins, Negress, snorting and scolding: "Yoh all let me 'lone, yoh whaht trash, I gotta ticket!"* Going outside, they saw the irate Negress and her baggage being turned over to an officer at the station. The train rolled away and the passengers drowsed again. Mrs. Brookings spent the night in the county jail and was fined $500 for violation of Florida's "Jim Crow...
...this new glorification of the melting pot, all the trouble starts when Mr. Van Dorn, blueblood, announces a prejudice against the prospect of an Italian daughter-in-law and a Jewish son-in-law. "We gotta get outta this neighborhood!" shouts the agitated aristocrat again and again. He thinks that, by moving, the love of democratic young Americans can be thwarted. Mrs. Van Dorn disapproves of her husband's arbitrary ways. Through her, Playwright William Perlman brings out the salient point that Mr. Van Dorn is not justified in assuming Castilian airs, because, even if the Van Dorns...
...recess, two boys in a schoolyard begin quarreling over a nice red apple. One of them, by fair means or foul, procures it, whereupon the disgruntled lad shouts: "Ha! it's gotta woim hole. Ha! it's gotta woim hole! You got stung!" This kind of conduct is quite normal in shrill Jimmy Nine and smudgy Butch Ten?but when for the two lads you substitute a pair of famous daily newspapers, and for the red apple a valuable "feature," is such behavior decent? Is it dignified? People asked this question last week about the New York World...
...Charlier!" "Lo, John!" "Have a good summer?" "Great! D'jou?" "Roaring! Damn good to see you again. Gotta be moving. See you later...
...true that the functions of their office exact neither physical nor mental effort from these gentlemen. Sweatshop workers, boilermakers, bookkeepers, often look upon them with envy. Guards have it easy. All they gotta do is just stand, and once in a while tell some loonhead where...