The first volume covers 1921-22, beginning several weeks before baby Skeezix appears.

How many peeps in a posse, how much booty before baby got back, do you have to be all that to get all up in that, and do I need to be dope and phat to be da bomb or can I just be "stupid"?

Mr. Baldwin sees blackface as a remnant of an idyllic world that existed before baby boomers and the counterculture of the 60's.

He would make this appalling viscus beat and throb before the shrinking journalists-no uncle with a big watch and a little ever baby ever harped upon it so relentlessly; whatever evasion they attempted he set aside.

Before baby came we used to move around all the time ( usually no more than 2 days at the same place).

We could be a nuisance--but how long will papa take it before baby gets spanked?

Where a canny Sam Cam beamed with fecund electability before baby Florence's appearance, Carla's expression of weary ennui strikes a much more resonant chord among real women.

Woman raped and murdered two weeks before baby due 3.

In another scene before baby Patrick is born, Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his "I Have a Dream" speech, which the Kennedy family see on TV.