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Word: puttin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Wee Drap o' Music | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...routine called Puttin' on the Ritz, one dazzling scene in Blue Skies where trick photography fills the screen with a full chorus of fast-stepping Astaires, will not dim his reputation as a hell of a dancer. The hardest of four numbers he designed for the picture, it took him five weeks of what he calls "backbreaking physical work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 14, 1946 | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

...electric man . . . could of been puttin' me on the bus for New Orleans the way he said 'goodbye,'" Willie recalled, "and I tried to say goodbye but my tongue got stuck in the peanut butter and I felt a burnin' in my head and my left leg and I jumped against the straps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Black Is the Color . . . | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

...stain. "I shall never have a greater devotion," said Author Rawlings, "than I had from this woman." Soon 'Geechee grew confidential. She explained her blind eye: "I disremember did I get the lick before they put me in the jailhouse or endurin' the time they was puttin' me in the jailhouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Enchanted Land | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

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