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Word: folkses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reading the far-flung accounts of this insignificant event, operagoers were at a loss to discover the reason for Miss Witwer's sudden prominence. Then they read what Miss Witwer's father, the mechanic, had told her after the concert: "You sang like a gol-durn angel." It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gary's Girl | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

Mr. Sunday had come to St. Louis from West Frankfort, Ill., famed gang battlefield, of whose alleged viciousness he said this to St. Louis citizens: "There's just as good folks up there as ever lived . . . a lot of St. Louis crooks went down there and hid behind machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Seven Week Revivalist | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

The theoretical but unsound basis of his cure was the double chloride of gold. He prated: "It acts like vaccination, eliminating from the system the element which has an affinity for the poison in alcohol. . . . Gold acts on the higher cerebral nerve centres, the seat of the diseased will and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drunkards' Bane | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

"That's stage stuff in so far as the union officials are concerned. . . . These folks you saw were dubs. ... I mean by that that they enjoy misery?or what would be misery to you or me, but to them is just normal existence. Why, some of them have been living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bituminous Days | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

The city desk has used the same formula for all three stories: There was the simple little girl who just stepped out on to that great stage and sang her way into the hearts of her audience. There was a special delegation of home folks (in Grace Moore's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: God-given Talent | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

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