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...wanted a license to run a water-taxi service from a Congress Street dock to Logan Airport. Cherub-cheeked Joe, who holds down a $5,200-a-year job as a construction inspector for the Curley-controlled city housing authority, pleaded nolo contendere (I ain't sayin' a word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Curley's Boys | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...Baby, she ain't sayin' nothin'. "How you come on, den? Is you deaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Tar-Baby | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

...cabin where he had taken his elfin, impubic bride "so's I can raise her up right," gangling Groom Johns declined $500 for newsreel poses, oiled his shotgun, muttered about "furriners" coming into the mountains, exploded: "They're a-sayin' they're goin' to take Eunice away from me. They're a-sayin' the law-makin' men in Nashville is makin' a law sayin' my marriage ain't legal. They've scared Eunice to death talkin' about sendin' her to reform school. I'm that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: What God Hath Joined | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

Clint Morgan was a "woods colt" -"what you-uns call a bastard, only our way of sayin' it is more decent. More natural-like, too; kind of wild an' bred in the hills an' the devil be damned, somethin' that-a-way." Clint's girl was Tillie Starbuck; he was aiming to marry her and everybody knew it and kept out of his way, till Ed Prather came along. When Clint found Prather sneaking off from the fish-fry to talk to Tillie, the trouble started. Prather got away that time, but Clint went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ozarks | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

...lemme loose, I'll knock you agin,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, en wid dat he fotch 'er a wipe wid de udder han, en dat stuck. Tar-Baby, she ain't sayin' nothin', en Brer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Suits | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

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