Word: gettin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Salle got it: if Mike Di Salle runs in the primary, either he must pledge himself to Kennedy or Kennedy will run against him. Said Di Salle, when he discovered that there was little else worth saying: "All right, boys. Let's go downstairs. The spaghetti's gettin' cold...
...arockin' and aboppln' and I's gettin' the breaks...
...were only the bony fingers on the screen snapping out the electric rhythms against a black backstop. Then the camera pulled back to pick up the little man with the zooty clothes, the sad, sunken face and the glandular voice that coiled around Lonesome Road ("Lord, I'm gettin' mighty weary of this cotton pickin' load"). With the assured grace of a precision instrument, Crooner Frank Sinatra was making a TV comeback (after a flop in 1952) with his own show and the fattest contract in show business. For 13 half-hour musicals, two one-hour spectaculars...
...Hmmm," say de Lawd, and all de Seraphim put down deah cigars to listen. Dis made de angels happy cause dey was gettin mighty tired flapping deah wings and was hoping de Lawd would install automatic air-conditioning. "Hmmm," say de Lawd again, "De old Piety Test has got to go. Wid de permission of de Boa'd, ah'd like to pass a miracle. Dis is gwine be a restricting miracle on de Piety Test Rules, Miracle I, Section fifty-nine: 'Salvation by piety, dat is our aim.' Let de clause now read: 'Salvation by piety and extra-curricular...
...think I want to get up. You certainly are gettin' familiar. I feel so fuzzy. What's wrong with...