Word: erful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good advice: "You got to weary yo' life along, 'cause dat's de way hit turns out. You work and yo' back gits tired; you lay round hyar in de sun and shade and yo' soul gits twice as weary. Take a job er work, and you wear cawns in yo' hands. Th'ow yo' shoes under some woman's bed, and cawns come on yo' weary soul. Quit yo' work, and you gits de all-overs. quit yo' woman, and you gits de down-yonders...
...er Sirs: Quite often, in TIME, I see Foreign Minister Briand referred to as "BR'ER...
Because Aristide Briand is quite as foxy, perhaps foxier than famed Br'er Fox in the Uncle Remus tales (Author Joel Chandler Harris), TIME terms him "Br'er Briand." French readers may not know that "Br'er" is the negro dialect contraction of "Brother," that its playful application to a foxy statesman is not extinct in U. S. political usage...
...lemme loose, I'll knock you agin,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, en wid dat he fotch 'er a wipe wid de udder han, en dat stuck. Tar-Baby, she ain't sayin' nothin', en Brer...
...butted, en his head got stuck. Den Brer Fox he sautered fort', lookin' des ez innercent ez one er go' mammy's mockin' birds...