Word: gettin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lizzie: "Bunk!" But the rainmaker has an answer for that. "Lady, you're right! . . . But you gotta take my deal because once in your life you gotta take a chance." And her father goes along with that. "You gotta take a whole chance without bein' afraid of gettin' hurt or gettin' cheated or gettin' laughed...
...angin' out and 'is nose all over the side of 'is face, 'e wasn't 'alf slammed. Coo, they really 'ung one on 'im. And the funny thing-we 'ad to laugh-'e said 'e was gettin' married next week...
...brutal street fights; finally he decided "to bump a guy" who had offended him. "I feel loose," he tells his accomplice as they wait giggling in the shadows for their victim, like little boys fumbling in a dark closet for the cookie jar. "Like I was made for gettin' even...
...standin' here all day with this cream gettin' soft on me,' Mr. Pint said . . . and sank again to his knees. He resumed cranking...
...hard to see why Mommy and Daddy would buy this ditty for any child, but rival record companies-King, Capitol and Dot-rushed their own versions on the market. Victor has brought out two novelty versions of the tune; Eartha Kitt sings it sexy ("I'm gettin' nothin' for Christmas 'cause I didn't want to be bad"), and Country Clowns Homer and Jethro take the part of the child's hardened parents ("Nuttin's too good fer our Johnny, and that's what he's gonna...