Word: jes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bartender snorted, "What the hell y'u doin' in here afoot, anyhow?" When two friendly riders met on the trail, they stopped and sooner or later swung off their horses, squatted on their bootheels, began scratching in the dirt with broomweed stalks. "A cowhand kin jes' talk better when he's a-scratchin' in the sand like a hen in a dung heap." This was known as cow geography, from the pictures they drew on the ground...
...often 'Geechee would stagger in to reassure her: "Kate an' Raymond's fightin', but don't you worry." "The bacon done burnt itself up, but don't you fret." "Kate is chasin' Raymond thu the grove with a butcher knife. But you jes' lay still and don't worry." So now 'Geechee comes to see Mrs. Rawlings once a year. She is always a little drunk. She says "they ain't nothin' nobody can do about...
...Good Lord. When he first took up boxing-and spent for his weekly lessons the 25? his married sister Emmarell gave him for scrubbing her floors every Saturday-Joe's churchgoing mother threw up her hands in horror. "I jes' gave him up in the hands of the good Lord," she says...
...paint-pot parade is the best Technicolor job out of Hollywood to date. But paint is no substitute for dramatic action. Out of the tiresome rhetoric, the pretty posturing of Blood and Sand only the bullfight scenes stand out. One of them is magnificent: a little Mexican boy named Jesús Angel, clad in a breech clout, armed solely with a white horse blanket, hazing a big black bull around a practice plaza de toros in the moonlight...
...doctor, Jesús Pueyo claims to have cured almost 200 patients with his vaccine, given in courses of 20 injections under the guidance of Dr. Francisco Romero. He will not reveal the formula of his vaccine, says it is made by neutralizing tubercle bacilli from human sputum with a special chemical. The vaccine, he holds, stimulates production of tuberculosis antibodies. Last fall the newspaper La Critica took up Pueyo's cause. The National Department of Hygiene promised to experiment if he revealed his formula. He refused. A newspaper row started. Then patients took matters into their own hands...