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Word: folkses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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This volume includes Ring Lardner's stories, old and new, testifies to his long-standing importance as a reporter of the American scene. His dramatic personae, ranging from prize-fighter to debutante, cop to jazz-writer, "just folks" to "the best people," offers more complete a panorama than Sinclair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lardner, U.S.A. | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

Near Siler City, N. C., last fortnight, a woman reporter interviewed "Uncle" Ance Watson, 112, onetime slave, and his son, 75. Said Watson Sr.: "If my Missus didn't go to Heaven, den Heaven is sho scarce of white folks."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Ring | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

"As the corpse's eyes filled she remembered how Gilly had hated the dark. "Bright lights," he would say, "gimme de bright lights. So she dragged him to a dry knoll, wiped his eyes of the slime, then struck West toward escape. A great buzzard flapped over her?omen of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Worry | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

The Significance. The story of two generations of Charleston "waterfront niggers" scheming and suffering to give the third generation a "chance" follows Mamba through naive cajoling relationship with "her white folks" follows Hagar through backsplitting labor in the phosphate mines; ends with Lissa scoring triumph at the opera. The long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Worry | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

"Da college girls givva more da mon' den da boys? Well, mebby, sometime. Nobody givva much in da cold weather. I maka most my mon' in spring, when it's warm an' da folks hang outta da window". Thus did Joe the hurdy-gurdy man, whose rickety cart, boney horse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Joe the Organ-Grinder Admits Superior Eleemosynary Spirit in Girls--His Horse's Left Hind Foot Once a Target | 1/29/1929 | See Source »

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