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...guess it ain't very often that you get a letter from a Civil War veteran, is it? Well it wont get any oftener, not with the years flying by like they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Civil Veteran | 3/31/1931 | See Source »

...Sweetheart, this is one of the best manicures I ever had.' . . . One night we had a date, and we was sittin' on the sofa, and he sez to me: 'Kiss me, honey,' and I say: 'You go 'way from here 'cause I ain't gonna kiss no man.' ... He got down on one knee and begged me to marry him. That's exactly what he done. . . . Then after I said I would marry him, I give in and kissed him for the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 9, 1931 | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

...costs of education, like the old gray mare, "ain't" what they used to be. The price of learning has reached for the ceiling along with the price of good liquor. Education nowadays is "a great industry." The Board of Education of New York City sat itself down quite casually the other day and adopted the largest building program in the history of Gotham's school system, providing for the construction of ninety buildings and the improvement of school playgrounds at a total cost of about $68,000,000. Just like that--nonchalant like! Also, the other day, the Registrar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 3/7/1931 | See Source »

...ain't I home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 1, 1930 | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

OhOOOOO....ohoooo...my head....where's the asperine?....ohoooo,....where am I?....who am I?....there ought to be a law....what seems to have happened?....I didn't....I never....it must have been someone else....omigod....did we?....say it ain't so, Stogie, say it ain't so....omigod....right in the middle of the Somerset?....Morris dances?....charades?....did we really?....well this is absolutely the last time....where's the bromides?....I'm all of an aspen....the toots....the jitters....the screaming meemies....what do I seem to have on?....well this certainly adds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Why You Have Headaches" or "Champagne, Mirabeau, and Mooseheads," in Just One Act | 11/8/1930 | See Source »

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