Word: wuz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swimming in the Charles, and that means Neal Smith and B. B. Sherwood. It is definitely polluted, says the notice. Liberty for Provincetown boat-riders until 1 hour after docking Sunday night. Fare $8.00 round trip, per couple. Havva good time. Wish I wuz there...
...drip wuz filled wit sadness and gives me da brusheroo...
When MacPhail was incrognito and da Bums wuz in da cellar...
Sportswriters liked little Joe Jacobs. He was generous, gregarious, made good copy. They liked the taunts he put into beer-bibbing Tony Galento's mouth: "I'll murder dat bum" (Joe Louis). They echoed his casual remarks until they became part of Broadway's vernacular: "We wuz robbed" (when Schmeling lost to Sharkey in their second fight for the heavyweight title); "I shoulda stood in bed" (when he found himself among the shivering spectators at a World Series game one frosty day in Detroit...
Last week, while sportswriters moaned "We wuz robbed." the prizefight fraternity wondered what effect Joe Jacobs' passing would have. With Arturo Godoy and Tony Galento in line for another shot at Joe Louis' crown (Galento is scheduled to meet Max Baer in a tuneup at Jersey City May 28), it looked as if Galento might drop out of the picture. In his crepe-draped saloon, Two-Ton Tony blubbered: "I can't go on widout...