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Word: wid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...calling everyone Dick. Talkative, Ozarkian, lanky, he harangued his platoon half hours at a time, often to heights of innocent eloquence, as in his farewell speech: "I ain't a sacred man, but we gonna win, 'cause we got folks ta home what's got a mighty big drag wid de Man 'at runs 'a whole shebang...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD GI FINDS LIFE STRANGE IN FORT BRAGG | 10/29/1943 | See Source »

...Tambo, I disagree wid you; suppose dat de cat's tail should be accidemptally singed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Gentlemen, Be Seated | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

...time past, whin I put me jut through wry livin' wan of the Tin Commandments between Revelly and Lights Out, blew the froth off a pewter, wiped me mustache wid the back av me hand, an' slept on ut all as quiet as a little child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: No Mulvaneys | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

...Down in Joisey all we got is mosquitoes," the Phin is reported to have said. "But I've got a mean coive. I'll moider da bums wid da beanball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shivering Lampy Awaits Ballgame | 5/20/1941 | See Source »

...proceeded to mother every unattached infant she could lay her hands on, adopting one "Willikins" who turned out half-witted. In fits of raffish humor she sometimes hinted that Willikins was hers; though she also said (truthfully, according to Biographer Coxe): "De only time I ever committed adultery was wid de husband of Mrs. Fitzherbert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Regent's Queen | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

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