Word: folkses
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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...
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."
"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...
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...
"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...