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...just as dead from a kick in the head as you can from (gunpowder) but its the natur of it gets people as cited. I mean your foot is all ways on the end of your leg innit. So if youre going to kick some 1 to death it aint all that thrilling...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Foragers and Mutants | 10/27/1981 | See Source »

...stage long trod by waltzing countesses and czardas-dancing gypsies a girl in rundown shoes and a beat-up hat marched to the footlights and belted out a number called Alles aus Naturverstand (meaning "Everything by Common Sense"). Americans in the audience recognized it as Doin' What Comes Natur'lly. Annie Get Your Gun had settled down in Vienna, and its arrival had precipitated another battle in the running musical war between partisans of old-fashioned Viennese operetta and fans of new-style American musical comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Siegfried Get Your Annie | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

Annie Get Your Gun. Ethel Merman doin' what comes natur'lly-giving humor and bounce to a big routine musical (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Best Bets on Broadway, Sep. 15, 1947 | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

Annie Get Your Gun. Ethel Merman doin' what comes natur'lly-giving humor and high spirits to a big routine musical (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Bets on Broadway, Nov. 25, 1946 | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...Doin' What Comes Natur'lly went through extensive alterations. . . . The line 'You don't have to go to a private school not to turn up your bustle to a stubborn mule' became 'Not to pick up a penny from a stubborn mule.' . . . Another verse about Grandpa Bill and his new wife. 'There he is at 93, doin' what comes natur'lly' . . . was thrown out and 'Uncle Ben, who stole chickens just as naturally as he breathed,' was substituted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadcaster's Earache | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

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