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Word: folkses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The brazen Lady Nicotine has grown bold. She now walks the streets in the better part of town and openly solicits the patronage of the young folks. Be careful Old Girl or you'll find yourself behind a deadline down in the restricted district along with John Barleycorn, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

They heard a symphony which has for its scope the story of the development of America, the definition of its powers. "O America, because you build for mankind, I build for you." Thus did Composer Bloch quote from Walt Whitman on the flyleaf of his score. Then for the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Anthem | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

Black Sadie is a common cornfield nigger raised to trusted though untrustworthy house servant, and by chance transported to "Easter Orange," N. J. There a wealthy, ridiculous patroness of the new art "discovers" her; it seems that Sadie's angular primitive skull is "the focus of the geometry." Cubism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: But Both Black | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

Thank you so much for the article in TIME. I am turning it over to my Business Manager. Somebody in your office knows all about us folks, and I have often wondered who it is.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 19, 1928 | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

White folks at Monte Carlo were enviously agog, last week, at the luck of a tall, tawny young woman who won prodigiously at Baccarat, cashed in her chips, stuffed into the décolleté bosom of her gown a bulging bundle of 1,000 franc notes, and whirled out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONACO: Ebullient Josephine | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

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