Word: gettin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frankie, in his usual knit tie and sharp suit, was there to receive a plaque from Mercury Records for selling 5,000,000 of their platters.* His cooey "gettin' kinda lonesome" style ("It feels good coming out that way") had come to him as naturally as a good night's sleep. But it had not always come that easily to his listeners...
...puttin' on a wee drap o' music an' drama, ye ken," explained a kilted Scot, "but yer no' gettin' awa' wi' it all as a gift...
After the fight, Roughneck Rocky Graziano swaggered to his dressing room, wearing a big grin. It contrasted with the bellicose look of his tousled mop of hair and two-day growth of beard. The champ dunked his swollen hands in a hot pail of water and said: "We gettin' good, real good, ain't we? Gimme that bottle." He took a swig: "Ahhh-damn good. Lemon juice, honey and brandy. Warms up the body. I don't drink though, really I don't. Here, pass it around...
...show closed with Shorty soliloquizing: "I guess that's what they call experience. Gettin' your teeth kicked in like that by a guy you've always looked up to. Now I'm really learning what life is like. . . . Well, nuts to 'em all. I can play it rough if that's the way they want it. And it looks from here like it's gonna be rough...
...become Prince Consort in title as well as in fact were questions for the solemn future. For the moment, most Britons were content with the romantic present. "Ain't he just the answer," cooed a Bradford woolworker over Philip last week. "Me an' 'erbert's gettin' married abaht October...