Word: lawd
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...edition, De Lawd becomes The Lord; he speaks grammatically now, no longer smokes 10? see-gars, is not addressed by irreverent gamblers any more as Liver Lips or even High Pockets; instead they call him Preacher Man. According to a spokesman, the whole cast will speak with "a soft rural-type intonation" rather than the Negro dialect in Connelly's Pulitzer Prizewinning script. Nobody will wear a derby. Cain still slays Abel, but morals are tightened up all through Genesis, e.g., instead of getting high on his keg of whisky, Noah just gets rosy. Perhaps the unkindest cut will...
Once upon a time, after de third millenium since de foundin ob Heaven, de Lawd and all his advisory Boa'd of Seraphim sat 'roun in a big smoke-filled room which was kep' ventilated by some angels flapping deah wings. "Peter," said de Lawd, "You is de Chairman ob Admission and Angelships. What's dis ah hear about obercrowdin' ob de heavenly palaces...
...Hmmm," say de Lawd, and all de Seraphim put down deah cigars to listen. Dis made de angels 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...
Whamm! Bam! Wowee! And after it was all over, de Lawd say, "Much obliged to you, Peter and de Seraphim. I think we has saved Eternity fo at least another millenium. Dis meeting is adjourned...
Died. Charles Winter Wood, 82, Negro teacher and actor who won critical applause for his brief portrayal of De Lawd in The Green Pastures (1935) following the fatal illness of the role's famed creator, Richard Berry Harrison; in New York City...