Word: fo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whether Southerners ever use ''you-all" in the singular,* Professor Greet said that the expression is usually collective, but sometimes resembles the French vous, as when a Negro servitor might say to a single person, with no sense of intimacy: "Kin ah call a cab fo' y'awl?" Southern-born, Professor Greet speaks with a faint accent, by no means resembles an "elocution" teacher, says: "We want to make Americans speak like Americans, not like a cross between Walter Hampden and an Englishman...
...time I read the article 1 was on the President Lincoln. In the fo'c'sle there were men whose total international date line crossings came to well over 260. most of them on mail-carrying ships. No one of us had ever heard of "slowing up'' for the date line, let alone the taking on of mail...
...Reeves and his Fo'cas'le Orchestra, direct from the Fo'cas'le at Marble-head and consisting of 12 pieces including a male vocal trio, will furnish the music for the affair. Tickets are priced at $3.00 for couples, and $2.00, instead of $2.50 for stags, as was originally decided...
Dunster--Wednesday, May 16. Ken Reeves and his Fo'cas'le Orchestra. 10 to 2 o'clock. $3.00 and $2.50. Formal, but informal acceptable. Male vocal trio...
...patient wife a thousand, his gambling brother-in-law another thousand, his son still another (no one in the cast had seemed fazed when it was announced that his son's little fiancee was pregnant). "And Henry," the darktown financier addresses himself, "hyeah's seven thousan' fo...