Word: talkin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 pestered I can't plant my tobacco crop nor git no work done. All I know is they ain't goin' to take Eunice away 'thout it's over my dead body." Eunice's mother...
...does large-scale entertainment on his Anacacho Ranch at Spofford, Tex. Jowled, powerfully-built, 53, he is suspicious of the Press, which he thinks mistreated him in London three years ago (TIME, June 26, 1933). To newshawks last week he drawled: "A Federal Reserve Board membership is not a talkin' job." He is rated a strictly political appointee...
...fine day. Much oblige, Heavenly Father. The sun shines so pretty. The purtes thang. . . . Hush, son, you talkin like a fool. Hush now, son, old boy. . . . Pore old Capm man. Pore old hoppin and cussin rascal. Make bricks all summer. . . . And, Heavenly Father, who art up yonder, all we got now is bricks. Mom and Violet and Macon and Big Sister and me squattin in corners munchin a brick apiece. Not eem gravy or sweetenin either. . . . Hello, Tooter. How you? . . . Oh, kissin runs in our family. . . . Hello, Shackle. Hidy-do, good-lookin. How you? Oh, I'm all right...
Fact is, Mr. Ovendale, we don't know just what name to use when we're a-talkin' about the King of England. Ever sence he got ashamed of his family name durin' the War an' changed it, we're all of a doodad to find a handle fer him. But last Sunday after Bible-class I got next to some kahlege kids an' asked them fer a proper, respectful title that TIME magazine could use in referrin' to George V, an' we thunk an' thunk fer a long time...
...Manhattan was Funnyman Jimmy ("Schnozzle") Durante, To make sure he "wouldn't say nuttin outa line," Durante had prepared his speech in advance. Excerpt: "I simply drove into the subject and when it comes to droving into a subject a Durante admits no peers. I'm not talkin' at this luncheon from hearsay or hunger, but because I was asked to talk. While drovin' and delvin' into de subject of Prohibition, I digs up plenty of data- not disa and dat-a-but data, data. And what do I find out, I'm askin...