Word: gotta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four hours, stopped at the last tent as his relief reported, put his rifle to his mouth and blew the top of his head off. This seemed so reasonably symptomatic of the division's island sickness that a marine in a nearby tent only growled: "Now I gotta find the padre. It's getting so they won't even let a guy outa here that way without a pass...
...what a terrible mornin', Oh, what a terrible day; We gotta horrible feelin' Dollars ain't comin...
Nature may be fine, but at Metro Goldwyn Mayer, it appears they gotta improve...
...ranch house on the morning of the year's first snowstorm, the reader is plunged into an atmosphere of family hatreds and tensions that recalls Playwright Eugene O'Neill at his grimmest. Whisky-soaked father Bridges hates his domineering, straitlaced, Bible-reading wife ("A clothespin in bed . . . Gotta keep drinkin' just to forget the 'normous wooden clothes-pin"). Mother Bridges, on her side, despises Bridges for his worthlessness, his decayed delusions of get-rich-quick grandeur...
...Gotta Stay Happy," an adaption of a Saturday Evening Post serial, has a number of "guaranteed" comedy situations and "funny" lines, but they all expired years ago with age and exhaustion. Stewart and Fontaine try hard enough, but they never succeed in convincing the audience, and don't seem to persuade themselves of the worth of the whole enterprise...