Word: gwine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heered right," said Peter. "We got fo'tynine percent mo' spirits as we got room fo'. People ain't so develish as dey used to be, an mo' of dem wants to get into Heaven. We's either gwine haf to lease eternity rights from de devil fo' mo' livin' space or else crack down on de applicants...
...happy cause dey was gettin mighty tired flapping deah wings and was hoping de Lawd would install automatic air-conditioning. "Hmmm," say de Lawd again, "De old Piety Test has got to go. Wid de permission of de Boa'd, ah'd like to pass a miracle. Dis is gwine be a restricting miracle on de Piety Test Rules, Miracle I, Section fifty-nine: 'Salvation by piety, dat is our aim.' Let de clause now read: 'Salvation by piety and extra-curricular activities, dat is our aim.' Ah'm gwine to throw a little lightnin bolt now to cleah...
Jacques Wolfe, 55, composer of such famed songs as Shortnin' Bread, Glory Road, and Gwine to Hebb'n, is a man with strong feelings about "real American opera." He is convinced that it won't develop until a lot of traditional "operatic hogwash" goes down the drain. His prediction: American opera will settle in a style "somewhere between Porgy and Bess and South Pacific. Let's face it, the popular song is the American idiom." Last week Rumanian-born Composer Wolfe was illustrating his point in a theater off Broadway with a little production called Mississippi...