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Word: doings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a boy-child makes Solomon's temple out of blocks, then sets it afire, or pours water over the red carpet to turn the wheel of his mill, what can grandmother do but send him out to play?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Protean Gnome | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

To marry a Tennessee hill girl, one must first have a "homeplace." The $50 a 'legger gave Fayre Jones to keep quiet about dynamiting the Howard house would have sufficed to let him marry Bess Howard, only the money proved counterfeit. What could Jones do but return it? Bess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tennessee Talk | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

"I have been haunted always by the Southern highlanders' need of a recorder. Being driven to frenzy by the futility of outland interpretation, I at last took up the work of their defense. To do this it has been necessary to make a long study of their idiom and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tennessee Talk | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Voice: We are leaving the city later today. We're not sure where we will go, inasmuch as we often do not decide until we get into the air.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Manna for Hanna | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

When someone telephones a newspaper office and says, "This is Calvin Coolidge. I have a story for you," the customary answer is, "Is that so?" and a bang of the receiver. Mr. Coolidge makes no habit of telephoning newspaper offices. Neither do Herbert Clark Hoover, Andrew William Mellon, John Pierpont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Manna for Hanna | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

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