Word: kinda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they'll tell you London's all right, but they're the places where the jobs get done. . . . Down here back of the Loop and among these warehouses - well, it might be most any place in England. Salford or Sunderland or Wapping, I guess. It looks kinda grey and squalid, doesn't it? Chicago's not all beautiful like the lake shore. It's far too big for that...
There wasn't much of a plot to the play, and what there was was kinda filthy for the Hays Office, but that never fazes Paramount for a minute, no siree. They've got Hope, so why worry about the plot...
Only twice before had Federal grand juries drawn indictments against Southern lynchers. Nothing came of them. "It all just petered out," the natives said. There were those on the creek bottoms who were not too excited now by the new indictment. It would all, they thought, kinda peter out. But a new spirit was stirring among some of Mississippi's thoughtful citizens about America's worst national disgrace, and chances this week seemed better than ever that complaisant Deputy Sheriff Holder and the lynch mob might really feel the hand of the law they had flouted...
Jimmy Rushing last week modestly deprecated his role in the song's success. Drawled he: "Ah kinda like the idee of havin' a song written about me, but ah've been workin' hard lately an' ah'm only Mr. Four by Five right...
...carrier two carpenter's mates and a petty officer were trapped in a compartment five decks below. There was water all around them, a seaman said, and it was hopeless to try to get them out. The telephones were still working. Somebody called down: "Do you know what kinda fix you're in?" "Sure," they called back: "We know you can't get us out, but we got a helluva good acey-deucey game goin' down here right...