Word: jes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...come from God. It's de word in Jesus speakin' his mind in my mind. I mus' be one of his 'ciples. Dese here is mirkels I can do. Cain't nobody do dese but me. I cain't help carvin' I jes' does it. It's like when you're leavin' here you're goin' home. Well, I know I'm goin' to carve. Jesus has planted the seed of carvin' in me." Curiously, Sculptor Edmondson seldom goes to church, but likes...
...portrait was a huge, brittle canvas by Paul Trebilcock of the much publicized Morgan sisters, Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt and Thelma, Viscountess Furness. Among the best pictures passed over by the prize committee were Taxes, a desolate study of an abandoned farm by the former PWAP head Edward Bruce, and Jes Schlaikjer's The Cooling Well, a woman and child bending over a well head on a South Dakota farm on a hot summer evening...
...Hambright organizations. Prior to the convention, the National Committee had voted to seat Mr. Tolbert & delegates (TIME, June 20). After the Credentials Committee's decision was read and carried on the convention floor. "Tieless Joe" was found mumbling: "See what Hoover gets out of his lily-white South! Jes' you wait, mister, and see what he gets...
...could use and was forced to turn them away. About dark an old grey-haired Negro, perhaps 65 years old, shuffled up. "Boss, I wants a job." "Sorry. Lige, I have more men now than I need." "Boss, I jes' got to have a job. Dese is de hardest times on an old. nigger I ever saw. I can't get a job nowhere. I walked all de way out here, nine miles in de rain and I's hungry. I knows I can't work like a young nigger but I can still chop...
That was the surprise. The rest of the party consisted in pledges of frantic loyalty to the President by the Deputies. As a matter of fact several are known sympathizers of Judge Manuel Jesús Urbina of the Iquitos Judicial Court who was under arrest last week charged with instigating the 17-year-old pistol carrier, his servant. Therefore the cheers of all the Deputies, their cries of "Viva Leguía! Live, live 10,000 years!" were especially loud...