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Word: dialectical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Nora Bayes black bottomed better than Prince Henry; but when the moment of judging came they "gave the little boy a hand." Florence, stamping her small right foot for quiet, awarded to His Royal Highness the first prize, held it aloft before the crowd, explained in mock Negro dialect: "Dis y'ere fust prize am an ostrich feddah suit o' cat's pajamas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chez Florence | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

...conceives James Weldon Johnson, poet and social worker among his fellow Negroes. He has let his memory doze back for the main themes of sermons he heard as a little boy. His intellectual faculty has played over the themes, spun them into folk poems without specious aid of dialect or ungrammatical rhetoric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VERSE: Trombones | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...rises at about 6:30 a. m. and rings for his personal servant, Cavaliere Malvestiti, whose surname by odd circumstance means "badly dressed." Old companions, they chat in Milanese dialect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Papal Day | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...money" He soon took up quarters in Vienna in an artic where he continued his work of translating classics into Albanian Anyone acquainted with the difficulty involved in such a work will appreciate the task he has undertaken. He had already translated Longfellow and Shakespeare into the native dialect and working on others English classics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fan Noli, Harvard Graduate, Has Been Tempestuous Force in Albanian Politics--Danger Yet Lurks Under Scrivener's Hood | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...which is a combination of clicks, clucks, and gutteral explosious. Their language caused us the most trouble. We would often use nine or ten interpreters to translate the language for us, one passing the story on to the next man, till it finally reached me, after being transferred from dialect to dialect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "FORBIDDEN CITY" VISITOR TO SPEAK | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

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