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...recently made with Crooner Frank Sinatra for a trifling $125,000. He could expect more petty cash from Stuck on You and its memorable lyrics. Sample: Ah'm gonna stick like glue-stick because Ah'm stuck on you, Ah'm gonna run ma fingers through yer long black hair-An' squeeze you tighter than a grizzly bear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 11, 1960 | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...Yer wee review o' a flic callit The Bridal Path [Dec. 28] werr itsel' a bit o' a clish-maclaverlie skirling indeed, indeed. Wha' wi' a' tha ap'str'phes an' dooble-Gaelic an' sich orrtheaugraficul odditees as wuid baefuddle e'en tha quare English boobies tae tha sooth, a mon cuid reedie feind 'is puir Glengarry a muckle addled amoong a' tha thistly syntax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 18, 1960 | 1/18/1960 | See Source »

...chortle daes a body nae mischief, laddies; an' I ken ye by yer mumpin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 18, 1960 | 1/18/1960 | See Source »

...boil yer 'ead!" Minutes later, in class, the same two children recited Housman's poetry, and their every o was pear-shaped, every a well rounded, every h clearly aspirated. Confided the boy: "We know if we talk nice-I mean, nicely-we'll get better jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Status War | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...next of the songs--some interpreted as still pictures, others with lively action. In the "complaint category," for example, "Talking Union" and "Union Maid" are done with audience participation, including community singing on the chorus of the latter. The cast distributes union handbills reading "Oust Boss Gunch" and "If yer gonna split Atoms you can't split Ranks." (Jones had the handbills printed from old union woodcuts he found in the Princeton archives...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: 3 Folk Sing | 5/19/1959 | See Source »

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