Word: wuz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Naked, He Wished He Wuz Dead...
During the middle of the freshman crew race exactly seven days ago, the MIT shell meandered absent-mindedly to the left and then to the right. MIT oarsmen have insisted ever since that "they wuz robbed" and had their boat only travelled in a straight line they would have kept the lead they managed to hold for more than a mile...
Surer of echoes in the American ear are certain voices of the more-distant prewar era (now making Bartlett for the first time): Joe Jacobs' "We wuz robbed" and "I should of stood in bed"; Mae West's "Come up and see me some time"; Noel Coward's "Mad dogs and Englishmen"; Henry Wallace's "Century of the common man"; Archibald MacLeish's "America is promises...
...Graziano.' " Billy tells how Yonkel was once outjinxed by one Timothy Whitehead, who had lost $5,000,000 in the '29 crash. "That's diffrunt," said Yonkel, "winnin' from dat kinda fella don't mean I'm all washed up azza jink. I wuz outclassed...
...carried her campaign to places where a house with a shed is called a village. Whenever she could get away from Washington, she hustled back to Maine. Booted & bemittened, on days when the fog was so thick a man could hardly spit, on days when the natives allowed "it wuz cold enough to freeze two dry rags together," she made the rounds of the state. In Bangor, she fell and broke her arm, stubbornly insisted on keeping a speaking date four hours later...