Word: stoney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Samuel Stoney, Manhattan architect, native of Charleston, S. C., gave an accurate imitation of Gullah (early Negro) dialect: "Once deh bin ah nyung rat wat couldn't muk up eh mine. Whenebber duh turrah rat ax um ef e would like tuh come oudt widdum, e would muk ansuh, 'I dunno...
...from that of the Princes last week as scheduled, and the Baldwin party spent a few days at Banff, superb Alberta sports centre now being developed by the Cana dian Pacific System. At Banff jovial Mr. Baldwin submitted to initiation rites making him a "blood brother" of the local Stoney Indians who christened him "Sitting Eagle...
...Kellogg, Mrs. B. L. Kilgour, Mrs. A. Lawrence Lowell, Mrs. H. G. Meadows, Mrs. R. B. Merriman, Mrs. J. W. Miller, Mrs. Francis Parkman, Mrs. C. A. Pratt, Mrs. Elliott Putnam, Mrs. R. R. Robinson, Mrs. D. M. Sayles, Mrs. F. B. Sayre, Mrs. H. D. Scott, Mrs. Richard Stoney, Mrs. R. DeC. Ward, Mrs. Moses Williams...
...hips, jutting elbows and wild necks. It is gone now, its very memory erased by a lithe barbaric jungle shiver, to which the gentle city of Charleston lent its name, and which has now brought a savage and quite inappropriate glory to the city of Charleston. Recently Mayor Thomas Stoney of Charleston, the Mayor's wife and ten members of his cabinet journeyed to Chicago to attend the first national Charleston championship contest, and to award the silver loving cups to the winners. The Mayor said that this dance had originated among reveling black bucks and yellow girls, who pranced...
...whimpered and the drums pitapated. "CHARLEston," said the pipsqueak piccolos, "CharleSTON," sang the clariboes, "CHARLESTON." the drunken night-horns caroled, hoarse and sweet. The long-haired bimboes, the pool-parlor cowboys, street-sheiks, bullyboys, soda-jerkers, danced with their minnies from the sticks, sundae-sallies with naughty eyes. Mayor Stoney gave the prize to Freddie Danidel and Anna Duvall of Memphis as the best from the South; to Thomas Nolan, Shelba Singer of Pittsburgh, for the East; to Donald Wilson, Louise Stoner of Wichita, for the West; to Lyman Curry, Katherine Osbourne of Chicago, for the North...