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...there!, bottle it!, break it off!, can it!, cheese it!, cheezit!, chuck it!, come off (of it)!, come off the grass!, curl up!, cut it (out) !, douse it!, dowse it!, drop it!, enuff!, fade away!, freeze!, hold on!, hold up!, kill it!, lay off!, leave off!, let up!, nix!, nix on that!, ring off!, sign off!, siphon off!, sound off!, stow it!, turn it off!, whoa Bill!, whoa Maud!, whoa Mud!, whoa there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: U. S. Slang | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

Georgia. With a rolling barrage of righteous Cracker votes, red-gallused, spellbinding Eugene ("I'm for peace") Talmadge (who was beaten for the U. S. Senate two years ago) mowed down Dairyman Columbus Roberts, Attorney Abit Nix on his sure-fire advance to a third term as Governor. With his forelock and victory both in his eye, New Deal Baiter Talmadge roared: "I am glad Georgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Primaries | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...Ranh Bay off the coast of Indo-China, French warships were maneuvering one bright morning last week. The submarines Phénix and L'Espoir submerged to make a sham attack on the flagship of the Far Eastern Fleet, the cruiser Lamotte-Picquet. After a half-hour L'Espoir knifed to the surface, but no one saw the Phénix, and probably no one ever will. For a day and a half planes and warships crisscrossed the sea, searching in vain for the crippled vessel. And then the Ministry of the Navy belatedly informed the families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Law of Averages | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Also your translator seems to have blundered somewhat. "Gaibt gore nix drum fer maid hame nemma" means "doesn't care at all for taking girls home," not "likes to take a girl home." At the most, taking "gabit gore nix drum" as an understatement, it might mean "doesn't mind," but "likes" would be "gleicht," derived from the German adjective "gleich," meaning equal, similar, like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 30, 1937 | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...Abie Walbert fon drous hinnich da Lechaw Kerrich drin secht, er gaibt gore nix drum fer maid hame nemma fon da picknicks, yusht's dade'n so narafich mocha bis er sie g'frok'd het. Da onner owet hot er aenie hame shnarra wolla fon dons on Shamrock, ow'r in blotz fon sawga 'Darf ich mit d'r hame lawfa, 'hot er g'sawt. 'Its akinda feicht tonight.' 'S maid'l is noh laenich hame, un so is aw der Abie." Translation: "Abie Walbert from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pumpernickle Bill | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

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