Word: sho
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time ago, I wandered into a session at the Moonglow on 145th Street (highly recommended!) which had some of the best orchestra piano I had heard in a long time. Asked the guy where he learned his style, to which he replied, "My name's Willy Gans, I can sho' play a mess of piano, and I learnt it all from Fats Waller." The point about this whole business is that Fats just can't get hep to this modern school of frill pianists. Most guys playing today play a lot of very fast and fancy right hand work, leaving...
...Memphis, Tenn., Negro Eddie Guidon was charged with operating a whiskey still. He at first pleaded guilty. Asked how much moonshine he had made, Eddie Guidon replied, "None." To the judge he explained: "I sho can't prove I ain't guilty, boss." Verdict: Not guilty...
...South might possibly handle our own personal problems with, what shall we say, a heavy hand. And you of the East? Black Legion? Of the West? California Kidnap Lynchings? Tar and Feather parties? Of the North and Midwest? Milk Spillings and Strike Riots? Sho you-all don't mention those...
...Cartersville, Ga. Negro Pinkie Frazier climbed a 102-ft. chimney, gibbered at 20,000 onlookers, threatened would-be rescuers with bricks. Cried a Negro preacher before Pinkie fell to his death: "You sho' is nearer Heaven than you'll ever be again...
...heiress. Dorothy Hopper had been called "Pete" since girlhood. At 19 she was a sophisticated young lady who had been to Nashville, read the works of James Oliver Curwood. and belonged to the fashionable Campbellite Church. When Shackle learned that she painted her toe nails red, he thought: "She sho must be a hot rock!" But Pete ran around with "Pewee" Williams, who had his own car. On the front of Pewee's car was a sign that read "Here Comes Pewee." On the back was another reading "There Goes Pewee." When Shackle was perplexed that such a sweet...