Word: jests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Entering into the spirit of the jest, the Democratic National Committee rushed around to tell five conservative Democratic Senators?Glass and Byrd of Virginia, Tydings of Maryland, Gore of Oklahoma, Bailey of North Carolina?that they were accused of being in league with the League, an accusation which no one had made. Promptly all five issued ringing denials which were so much good grist for the Democratic Committee mill...
...jest wanta say a word to thank that there northern feller Carmer for the fine book he has wrote about us pore ignorant people down here in Alabama [TIME, July 2]. They shore do discover things about us and we do like for the rest of the world to know how we live down here...
...Jemmen," he began, "you all might as well go on back fuh ain't no good goin' to come of what you is up to. Yu is jest goin' to make trouble and hurt yo'se'ves and hurt Howard University. How is you goin' to git 'propriations ef you carry...
...straight ways" refusing to become wealthy by selling the farm as the Karchers had done, in cause of the industrial venture. Early in the book we have a premonition that little Georgie will follow, tragically, in his father's footsteps when we read Aunt Fanny's words, "He's jest the spit of you, George. He's jest like you was starting all over to be my little one". And George Rood repeated "Jest like me starting over again...
...history of the drama. The work of all the best known U. S. designers was represented but, more often than not, settings for their best known plays were lacking. People looked in vain for Robert Edmond Jones's The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife, The Jest, Mourning Becomes Electra; for Bel Geddes' Miracle or Lysistrata; for Jo Mielziner's Street Scene...