Word: onliest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ballew sold some of his livestock and paid $70 for two pedigreed hounds, to raise them from pups with no purpose in life except to catch King Devil, he was ashamed to face his family and his neighbors. To his astonishment they were overwhelmed with pride and admiration-"the onliest real fine things we've ever had"-and the dogs brought him a kind of backwoods fame and prosperity. Bootleggers treated him with respect, the AAA lent him fertilizer for his fields, a dog-loving storekeeper advanced him credit, and the whole countryside conspired to keep his secret when...
...Geechee went with Leroy. Three days later she was back. Then Author Rawlings found one of her five-gallon jugs of moonshine reduced to three gallons, the other to two. Said lovelorn 'Geechee: "It's the onliest way I can make out. It's the onliest thing lifts my heart up, times I think I'm jus' obliged to die." When Mrs. Rawlings fell from her horse and broke her neck, 'Geechee cared for her tenderly. But she taught Mrs. Rawlings' other two Negroes to drink. One morning Author Rawlings "awoke to pandemonium...