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Word: somethin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rember one time when Henry was a little kodger his ma and him come over to make us a visit. His Aunt Sarah an me was stirrin Apple Butter out back of the kitchen wen they drove up. Henry jumped out an come over to help me stir. Somethin caught his interest an he turned round and afore you could say jackrobinson he backed up and sot right down in the kittle. Well twant bad enough to burn him much but for few days he had to eat his meals standin up. An' the accident didn't hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 4, 1937 | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...hand ter join no organizashuns, not even the kind that keeps alive memories of stirrin apple butter, butcherin and all them chores we used to do down on the farm in Indiany. The old purplish-brown apple butter used to come thru them hole in the paddle like somethin it aint so pleasant to think about, but just the same that ain a bad idea of yours. If they has organizashuns for folks that used to pump pipe organs, why not ? But don't you think then orter be a requirement that you had to turn the peeler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 4, 1937 | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

Ennyway, brother, I think you've got somethin there that might be worth continuin. You fellows over in Marion, Ohio always was darn good organizers and sum of the best apple sauce ever made in the country came from there. If your apple butter was only half as good, it was dam good stuff, and so you kin put me clown as a charter member...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 4, 1937 | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

Religion is somethin' fo' de soul But preacher's belly done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Songs of Protest | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...rythme et la mélodic qui comporte toujours un grand dynamisme." To black Bandmaster Chick Webb of Harlem's Savoy Ballroom, swing "is like lovin' a special girl, and you don't see her for a year, and then she comes back it's somethin' inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Whoa-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho ! | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

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