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Word: folkses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Berry School. Busy Henry Ford found time to make a special trip to Rome, Ga., on visit to Rooseveltian Martha Berry and her school. Less than 25 years ago Miss Berry, Southern gentlewoman, taught Sunday School to "po' whites" of the mountain district in northwest Georgia. From this grew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ford, Rosenwald, Carnegie | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

"So The New York World, which believes that Negroes in the South are strung up every day or two, despatches one of its staff men, Oliver H. P. Garrett, who is evidently quite a 'nigger lover'. . . . It is plain anybody can see he is trying to make maudlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LYNCHING: New Gentry | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

The Japanese Garden, with the Turkish flag hanging in it, was a beautiful sight to witness, and was well worth walking across the hall for. It was a likely retreat for timid folks and couple after couple could be seen creeping up the stairs to this garden with its scent...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 11/19/1926 | See Source »

When the Detroiter goes to New York and seeks diversion at Miss Texas Guinan's playground she will no doubt hall him as a "big dollar man" from the west and plead with the audience to "give this little boy a hand". And they will--the New Yorkers; they love...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIDAS FROM THE WEST | 10/27/1926 | See Source »

Do any of your folks know of one volume that might. . . enable a country banker to peruse TIME profitably? . . . This request is made in all seriousness. . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mrs. Jeppe Flayed | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

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