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Word: sho (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sho am glad our seats are down heab!...Ah simply adoah watchin' football games...don't you?...Oh no! Ah'm not like the rest of these women heah, Ah don't wanna talk...Ah reckon Ah'm different that a way...Ah just love to watch fo'ward kicks, an field passes 'n' things...Oh is that wheah the Ahmy is sittin'?'...Sho' nuf'?...Ah'm so excited...Ah love the Ahmy...! When Ah was a little kid no biggah than that down home in Gawgia. Ah simply adoahed policemen, the way they went 'stridin' about in brass buttons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One of Wellesley's Representatives From the South Airs Her Views on Army and Harvard--Scorns Brass Buttons | 10/19/1929 | See Source »

Near Siler City, N. C., last fortnight, a woman reporter interviewed "Uncle" Ance Watson, 112, onetime slave, and his son, 75. Said Watson Sr.: "If my Missus didn't go to Heaven, den Heaven is sho scarce of white folks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Ring | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...Negroes was quoted as having said: "Sho' would have had a hard time didn't Mr. Hoover come to fetch us to de high ground .... Sho' would make a noble president." And a white man was said to have remarked: "We think Hoover is the most useful American of his day. Why, he'd make a fine President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Flood Aftermath | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

...book more bubbling with conversation. Joy and sorrow, large matters and small are discussed with that vast volubility of people whose social life is instinctive, unintellectual. On and on the voices flow, never tiresome, liquid, direct, humorous, full of "yunnuh" (you), "enty" (isn't that so?), 'sho'," "Jedus." A three-dimensional talking cinema could reproduce folk-life no more fully nor could any director efface himself as completely as Mrs. Peterkin to let a rich stream of life take its own way through playful eddies and deep pools. Black April is a full size product, as authentic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Apr. 4, 1927 | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

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