Word: wuz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Messenger Parker: "I knowed dem banjo heads wuzn't representin' de true spirit of de University an' I was provoked an' wore out wid de way dey wuz actin'. ... He didn't tech me, no indeedy, fuh you see I has de body motion an' weaved...
...needs a little liquor and second, dem what wants it gits it whether they buys it or steals it." Why he left the Senate: "Cause o' de Ku Kluxes. I was staying at a colored hotel when word comes to me that de Ku Kluxes wuz killin' all de nigguhs, some by just plain killin', some by drownin' and some by burnin'. Den that night, I found a note under my door. It said, 'Green, when we git back here we don't want to find you here...
...ever do for Denver? Paint him out and put me up there." Eugene Field, then managing editor of the Denver Tribune, wrote the poem "Modjesky as Cameel" as a picture of a frontier first night. At the performance at the Tabor Grand, "Three-Fingered" Hoover ("ez fine a man wuz he ez ever caused an inquest or blossomed on a tree!") rescued "Cameel" from "Armo," just the way the hardy mountaineers stop the show in Showboat. He told...
...paper. Some Abe Martinisms: "We often wonder if anybuddy ever bought new shoe strings before th' ole ones busted? . . . Wouldn't this be a dandy world if we could all stand discouragement like a reformer? . . 'I heard a shot and a scream in the hall but wuz jest listenin' in on Amos & Andy and thought no more of it,' testified Mrs. Tilford Moots' brother, questioned in regard to the murder of his wife." Born into a newspaper family (his brother and sister, Horace K. and Ada A. Hubbard, publish the Examiner, Bellefontaine, Ohio...