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Word: kinfolks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even put enough bees in Tallulah's bonnet. Her sort of nursery-rhyme old crone scampering upstairs, downstairs and in my lady's chamber has in places a nursery-rhyme lilt, but far too often a thin, struggling farce's laboredness. The kinfolk and clubwomen who keep trooping in and out make the struggle even harder. The play has charming moments, but only moments; flashes of bright Harveyesque humor, but only flashes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Play on Broadway: Feb. 10, 1961 | 2/10/1961 | See Source »

Question: What do you do if the kinfolk show up only at hog-killing time, licking their chops for pork? Answer: Keep the execution secret. Question: What do you do when your husband's whittle shavings are always flying into the piecrust? Answer: Get him a "whittling room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Troubles in Texas | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

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