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Word: folkses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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. . . Judging from some of the communications you receive and publish, it would seem that if some folks ever catch cold in their sense of humor (or lack of it), O Boy, won't the undertakers be kept busy!

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 21, 1927 | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

I am another one of those plain West Virginia folks who have a bit of fun, especially reading those ignorant comic letters which some folk from Ohio are always writing about our state, "The Switzerland of America."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 7, 1927 | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

The trouble was, that the divine spark which entertainers sometimes catch and which draws the audience into a kindred state of mind, has either been completely extinguished or badly dampened in the sudden jump to Boston's early spring. Some of the acts had distinct possibilities but they never seemed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER PAGE | 2/24/1927 | See Source »

A more-than-six-foot 200-pounder stood upon the stage of the Four Cohans' Theatre in Chicago last week. His paunch heaved like a vexed hippo's, his ham of a hand smote the air, his flabby face howled. Technically, he was no vaudeville actor; he was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mud-Slinger v. Rats | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

Honor Be Damned. Again, Willard Mack. In this, his fourth play of the season, (The Noose, success, Lily Sue, not a success, Hangman's House, flop) he enacts the leading role himself. He is a smooth-tongued criminal lawyer, who could convince any jury of twelve men that "even if...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hatrack, Revelry | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

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