Word: sure
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little moth, a little singe" and it is nothing to bring a lump to the throat when a young girl surrenders her virtue? To be sure it is only a picture, but is it teaching the young and innocent girl, even though she may be called a "flapper" that it is "only a little singe" to do this? Is your reporter lending himself to the support of such a false theory? Is is possible that it is not known what the first downward step means to a girl, and that in life where such a thing happens...
Down in Natchitoches, La., reputed third oldest city in the U. S.** Negroes lolled in the park and pointed to a little hillock. "Are yoh a good niggah, Sam?" asked one. "I sure am. What make yoh ask silly questions, boy?" said Sam. "Den, yoh goin' to have a statue on dat spot over dere." And at the base of that statue will be the inscription: The Good Darky of Louisiana. Erected by the City of Natchitoches in Grateful Recognition of the Arduous and Faithful Service of the Good Darkies of Louisiana. Donated by J. L. Bryan...
Sirs: Did you know that we have in England - magazine called Time and Tide? Many of your readers, I am sure, would be interested in a description of this paper which I would be glad to write and send you for a modest compensation. John Oscarson...
...friend's attention. Here you can help me. If you will print this letter in TIME-anywhere in TIME-he will see it. ... This method of communication would actually be surer, as well as more genteel, than a direct message, for I am by no means as sure that he reads all my letters as that he reads all of TIME. . . . I'm going to be wholly frank with you, in full confidence that you will not take advantage of a fellow's straightforwardness. I intend, if all else fails, to send you five dollars before...
...Rumanian madhouse by an elderly Rumanian countess, after being incarcerated by peasants who believed her a "witch-girl," cursed by her grandmother. Besides the coins flying at her, the observers saw stigmatic markings-teeth marks, weals, pricks-appear on Eleonore's face and arms, spontaneously they were sure...