Word: yuh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tingting, the tingting, clock, ting-ting." Random thoughts churned around in Baxter's stream of consciousness like rampaging underwear in an electric washing machine. "Goddamn you, Archibald Mac-Leish!" he thought: "And you, Dos Passes ... So Hitler must be stopped? . . . Oh, but-and-oh, but-what're yuh doin'? . . . Oh, the lousy lousy lousy LOUSY mess! Why isn't it 1922 instead of 1942? And I-twenty-two, walking through the Tuiler-o-o-o with a copy of Ulysses . . ." And where was Lisa, murmuring with her "pink-lipped, delible pout"? In her place...
...York Herald Tribune suggested that the best way to pronounce Queuille was as a Southern colonel would say the last two syllables of "you cur, you" (yuh cuh yuh). The Tribune found, however, that some Americans called him Kelly...
...when he was with the New York Giants. One fat pitch (clouted for a home run with the count two balls and no strikes) did it. Giants' Manager Mel Ott bawled him out in front of the whole team and fined him $500. Bill began to brood. "Yuh don't feel like pitching when a fine's hanging over your head," he said. The fans jeered. Deafness and all, says Bill, "When 30,000 razzberries pour down on you, you hear...
...dour day) but still it's just another western. In fact, a few of the grizzled old clansmen lapse into an occasional drawl. Even Hero Larry Parks appears to be still playing in his most successful picture. The Jolson Story: at one point he declaims vibrantly: "Ah luhvs yuh!" But no oater-fan is likely to object to any of the escapes and chases and pounding hooves...
...little owl-eyed man with a sunburned bald spot walked in, and this was the signal for everyone to sit up. Everyone said, "Hi yuh, Jack?" Jack said he was all right except for the burned bald spot and everyone howled and said that was rich. Everyone remembered to call him "Jack." He used to be "Jake" but he had sent word around: "Call me Jack." Jack sat down grinning. Now everything...