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Word: sweete (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Negro." Klan circulars said he said: "Resist your white masters. ... I see you pray, but to what good? . . . Your God must be white considering the way he treats you. No doubt there will be a 'Jim Crow' law in your heaven. I heard you sing 'Sweet Land of Liberty' but I don't see how you do it. ... But . . . you have some friends not afraid to sit at the table with you. I have done so, and I've drunk bootleg liquor with you, and in what better way can friendship be manifested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEGROES: Darrow v. Klan | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...buggy-couples wooed each other with "Connaistu le Pays?" sweet lyric by Ambroise Thomas. As old Dobbin ambled along the moon-patched road He would lean his head against her leg-of-mutton sleeve, and She would trill: "Knowest thou the Land?" So thorough a wooing song did this aria from Mignon become that the opera itself became boresome. People refused to go hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wooing Song | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

Love's Greatest Mistake (William Powell). Apparently it is losing faith in the Beloved, but so jumbled and incoherent is the scenario that anybody's guess will do. There is a shred about "Honey" (Josephine Dunn), a sweet maid from the country; a leering villain of the Metropolis; a proud, penniless architect. There is also Love Divine. The director displayed on the screen a facsimile of the story in Liberty Magazine on which the film is based, thus proving conclusively that the thing really has a plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Mar. 7, 1927 | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...first heat of his love for Josephine, Napoleon wrote: "I am waiting for you. I am wholly filled with you. Sweet, incomparable Josephine ... I find calm when I give myself up to my passion, that on your lips, at your heart, I may fan the flames which burn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Non-Fiction | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

...vagabond who enjoys good music, today offers opportunities, which come all too seldom in the life of a peripatetic seeker after higher learning. But today he may revel in the sweet regions of melody even as early when he has scarcely rubbed the sleep out of his eyes, for at 10 o'clock in Professor Spaldings course in Music 4, a string quarter will play a number of selections from Mozart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 2/17/1927 | See Source »

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