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Word: suh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handwriting, and against the importunate cables from abroad. One day he came back from Memphis with a suitcase and called Mammy in. Old Man Towne explained that he was deeding over to her the house in Memphis and that the suitcase, which contained $25,000, was for her. "Yas suh, Mist' Otis," said Mammy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cotton King | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

...41st go to other outfits, they carry their spirit with them. The 41st tells the story of a Negro engineer who was transferred to Fort Belvoir, Va. While the engineer was on guard duty, a white general summoned him: "Boy, come here." The engineer obeyed, saluted, said: "Suh, I'm not a boy. I'm a soldier." Said the general: "Soldier, I'm well rebuked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: And the --- ---- Engineers | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

...Gentmun, suh, draw yo'selves up a chair and have a mint julep. You all is gonna need a stiff reenforcement to carry you all through this yere picture. Suh, what them yankees out tha in Hollywood has sayd abaht Vuhginny is a dahrect insult to us who would be willin to give oauh blood for deah ole Vuhginny. Wha, they done even had a yankee ridin a pure bred hoss--who ever saw a yankee who could ride a hoss like some of oauh southen gentmuns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 4/15/1941 | See Source »

They had a belle named Madeleine Carroll portrayin a southern girl gone wrong--she had gone up noth to live after her pappy and mammy done diahd. They had her come back speakin a nothen accent and, suh, its a dis-grace, that's what it is, and we all should rize up and defend ouah honor. Any man with any blood of oauh ancestors who's seen goin into this picture will be challenge to a duel by some of us who still remain true to Genel Lee--God rest his soul...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 4/15/1941 | See Source »

...siring-a value of $1.500,000 at a cost of $80,000. In his Washington office he points proudly to a wall map stuck full of red pins. It is no tactical map; it is full of horse interest. Says West Pointer Hardy, "Wherever you see a pin, suh, theah stands a stallion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Horses, Horses, Horses | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

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