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Word: folkses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: . . . Folks who rail at TIME because it's not like each and every other magazine remind me of the lady who on visiting New Orleans bitterly complained of not getting "veal cutlet served like they do in Philadelphia," while I was having the time of my life enjoying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 11, 1927 | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

Damon Runyon (sports writer, murder trial reporter) described Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh's appearance during the ceremonies in Washington as follows: "He looked so frightened, and so very, very young that you felt your old Adam's apple working, and you wished that you might get to him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 20, 1927 | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

"Don't mention my name," said a man whom newsgatherers described as a U. S. citizen, "but I want the folks back home to know one thing that happened. . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Atrocity | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

"A keen eye trained to observe the antics of one's fellow men and a fine sense of humor are the prime requisites for a cartoonist," declared Clare Briggs, America's leading cartoonist in an interview with the CRIMSON. Briggs whose drawings are published in over 175 American newspapers, is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CARTOONIST MUST HAVE SYMPATHETIC EYE AND MIND, DECLARES BRIGGS | 4/27/1927 | See Source »

Thus readers of the Pittsburgh Courier (famed Negro Weekly) read last week an article by Author Langston Hughes, bitterly assailing those members of his race whom he considers a pale reflection of white civilization. Meeting upper-level Negroes of Washington, D. C., Mr. Hughes found them critical of Jean Toomer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEGROES: Class Conflict | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

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