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Word: personal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Getting money and getting education are of first importance. The colored man . . . is getting it [education]-many people in the South say-faster than the white people. Intelligence is a misfortune to anybody, but especially to a colored person. If you do not know what is going on, a sort of fundamentalist, you are safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Persistence | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...upon me to decide whether or not he would be prosecuted. We did put him in jail, as you know, and he made no effort to escape. That ended him with his worshipers; and, after his release, a man took his place who was really a far more dangerous person than Gandhi himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mahatma Hunter | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...most popular query however, is how I can enjoy smoking when I can't see the smoke. But to that question, I always ask in turn if that is the questioner's reason for smoking. At the invariable answer of 'yes' I always suggest that such a person might save money by sitting on the curb and watching a chimney...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blind Dan Finds Change in Square and Its Occupants During 20 Years--Veteran Newsman Enjoys Smoking | 3/25/1927 | See Source »

...frenzy that will persuade them to donate money for the building of a church; then to skip the hills and return to the city bootleggers, with the church fund. Little did they reck that Red Belwyn (Margaret Lawrence), beautiful crookess of the gang, would discover LOVE through the burly person of Devil Ace Gilson (Louis Bennison), head of the Southern Gentlemen's Association of Moonshiners. But she does. And the evildoers drink wood alcohol, thereby losing forever their sight of God's true Heaven. This melodrama, which might have been good satire-comedy, is both thick and thin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Mar. 21, 1927 | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...Freeman Hopwood, secretary of something called the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, explained that in almost every student suicide case the unfortunate young person had believed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Wave | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

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