Word: paw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Well, Mr. Young," said Paw, "hit don't seem just right fer you to stand in the way of a man's bettering hisself...
...Well, Maw, how do you like this?" said Paw. "Hit's right crowded," said Maw, "but . . . hit's right narce having neighbors so handy...
...long absence she returned with a slicked-up husband. He "followed along behind her, grinning sheepishly, fatuously, and she clicked across the floor on her high spike heels and flung herself on the bed and burst into tears." "We're married," said her husband. "Well, now," said Paw, his face clearing, "come right in." "I hate him," said Virginia, "I hate him. I'm going to have a b-b-ba-baby...
...said Paw, "he done the handsome thing by you just like I did by your maw when Rinno was born. What are you so wrought up about? You'll make him feel he ain't welcome. You work on the WP & A?" Paw asked the boy. "Well this is like meeting an old friend. We're all just WP & A folks here. . . . You and Virginia kin have the bed in the corner all to yourselves...
Town life raised the Taylors' standard of living. "I've got to git me a raddio," said Paw excitedly one day. "Here Congress has done passed a law to give us WP & A men a raise and I never knowed nothing about it till this morning and they done it yestiddy. Ever'body else on the job knowed it but me." So the radio dealers got out their oldest sets, the second-hand-car dealers got out their oldest junk. All jacked up the prices...