Word: playin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first that he wanted to be a baseball player, but there was too much music around. "My dad ran the community store, an informal meeting place for farm hands on Saturday afternoons," Charlie recalls. "Some would bring their guitars, and there would be a lot of singin', playin' and spittin' tobacco juice. It was a real stompin' brand of music." Charlie's father taught his son the guitar, and at twelve Charlie was playing on a local radio show. World War II saw Charlie in Special Services, touring Europe as an Army showman...
Maid: And my funeral ... I wanta go (gasp) the way I planned. Especially the four white horses and a band playin'. No mournin...
...Beverly Hills, Calif. "Now, on the St. Louis team," Straight Man Bud Abbott would say, "Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third." Costello: "Do you know the fellows' names?" A: "Yes." C: "Well, then, who's playin' first?" A: "Yes." C: "I mean the fellow's name on first base." "Who," said Abbott, and they were off on a routine that became so famous that a plaque bearing the dialogue hangs in the baseball Hall of Fame. They performed it thousands of times (on several...
...first big step on the road to the depths of deg-re-day-I say first-medicinal wine from a teaspoon, then-beer from a bottle! And the next thing you know, your son is playin' fer money in a pinchback suit. And list'nin' to some big out-a-town Jasper hearin' him tell about horse-race gamblin'. Not a wholesome trot tin' race. No! But a race where they set down right on the horse! Like to see some stuck-up Jockey-boy settin' on Dan Patch? . . . Trouble...
...Governor Orval E. Faubus and President Dwight D. Eisenhower. "I never interfere in politics no kind of way," said Sugar, "but I'd give that Faubus my whole purse and take him on right after Basilio. I think Mr. Eisenhower's somewhat faulty too. There he is playin' golf and his country damn near in a revolution...