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...have a mint julep. You all is gonna need a stiff reenforcement to carry you all through this yere picture. Suh, what them yankees out tha in Hollywood has sayd abaht Vuhginny is a dahrect insult to us who would be willin to give oauh blood for deah ole Vuhginny. Wha, they done even had a yankee ridin a pure bred hoss--who ever saw a yankee who could ride a hoss like some of oauh southen gentmuns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 4/15/1941 | See Source »

...southern gentleman who loves to see the tobacco grow and the young fillies fill out. He wants to keep Virginia for the folks who love Virginia. Yassuh. He can keep Virginia if it is the same state that Madeline Carrol comes back to. She comes back to sell the ole homestead, but the feel of the good earth under her fingernails brings back the days when MacMurray used to wash the little mole on her right leg. Or was it her left leg? Anyway she stays and gets everything mixed up. It's all mixed up. There's old negroes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 2/21/1941 | See Source »

While Seasoned Cooks Ben Butler, Gelett Burgess, Ole ("Hellzapoppin") Olsen, and Rube Goldberg looked on, ex-Congressman Bruce Barton thrust a spoonful of his best spaghetti between the large lips of Illustrator Arthur William Brown, which thereupon smacked noisily, made other sounds indicating that Adman Barton had proved himself worthy of membership in Manhattan's Society of Amateur Chefs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 10, 1941 | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

...Limey!" hooted toughies. "I say, ole chahp," they drawled, making monocles with their fingers. With such normal antics, pupils in many a U. S. school this month greeted their small British guests. But by last week most of Britain's 2,700 young evacuees in the U. S. had begun to feel at home in U. S. schools. Teachers and pupils chuckled over differences in U. S. and British education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New School Tie | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...letting it pass he had abandoned invasion, turning his attention southward (see p. 27, p. 29}, Britain might not be so likely to win as if he made the attempt now. The British were confident last week as they feared they might not be next spring. Ole Bill, Captain Bruce Bairnsfather's famous cartoon philosopher-private, recently said: "It'd be just like that Hitler to play us a dirty trick, like not trying to invade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF BRITAIN: Death and the Hazards | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

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