 Now that he's living with one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel, as he would say, isn't it time for me to wake all the way up.  Hearings - 665. lappuseautors: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging - 1970Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Preston Gibson - 1910 - 78 lapas
...needed the money so I was the answer. But it wouldn't have been fair if poor old " Fidgy " hadn't had one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. ALINE. Your case is like mine in one respect; we too need money. Mother convinced me that this is what... | |
 | Henry Dodge Estabrook - 1914 - 380 lapas
...foothold is uncertain, and his tenure as precarious as that of the old fellow Myron Reed tells about — one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. The word " there " doubtless represents a goal of attainment ; but it is a vague word, and wonderfully... | |
 | George Washington Kingsbury - 1915 - 1182 lapas
...condition of democracy is adequately portrayed by the description of the gentleman who is said to have one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. Our democratic friends express a horror for trusts and combines, but what they really most need just... | |
 | Frank Rufus Goodell - 1918 - 234 lapas
...currency. Why, some of the older firms today won 't use typewriters or telephones — have in fact one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel — but they have such prestige with the public, that they "get by" on the strength of the name on... | |
 | John Herbert Van Deventer - 1918 - 156 lapas
...two years ago,. if ever one was. There wasn'ta man or machine in that shop in them days but what had one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel — that is as far as any real usefulness was concerned. "Ed Conners bein' the older brother, had the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging - 1970 - 910 lapas
...peel. I don't feel that way, I am not that old yet. I am a senior citizen, but I don't feel I have one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. I feel I have a lot to live yet. [Applause.] Senator RANDOLPH. Good for you. Mrs. MARSH. Thank you.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging - 1970 - 924 lapas
...have diabetes. I have to go to the doctor every month, but I am far from, as the lady said, having one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. I don't think I am quite that bad off yet. The crying need in Logan County is transportation — we... | |
 | Micki Grant, Jennie Elizabeth Franklin - 1975 - 68 lapas
...You better get this old hag straight 'Fore she be pushing past Peter at the Pearly Gates. She already got one foot in the grave and The other on a banana peeling. So all I gotta do is blow on her and she'll be JACK. Keeling just like them buildings I wreck... | |
 | Herbert M. Shelton - 1996 - 580 lapas
...one if he takes it in moderation," and imagining himself in good health, he was really standing with one foot in the grave, and the other on a banana peel. Such a condition does not develop suddenly. It is the result of causes that operate in the daily life... | |
 | Don Evans - 1985 - 68 lapas
...right . . . and you don't scare me. BIG RED. I'll tell you one thing . . . you've got style. I mean, one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel an' you still in there swinging. Too bad the round's almost over. STAGGERLEE. Man, you'd better go... | |
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