Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made power ful good excuses, for he had a mighty glib tongue. He swore to God the first night that the holy spirit had fallen on him so heavy during the sermon he had to leave the church and go off in the woods to pray. ... He talked mighty sweet about how he hated to leave her home by herself and all like that, but his tongue fumbled so it could not talk sweet enough to fool her. She had a good notion about where he spent every God's night he was gone...
...Baltimoreans, Pianist Emmanuel Wad and Playwright Elmer Greensfelder, wrote Swing Low. The title refers not to the hanging but to the recurrence of the spiritual ''Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" which impressed the audience as being the finest bit of music in the opera...
...rape, they say, but this somehow seems a little more) is too much, and she dies with her penitent pater and no less penitent though virtuous mater at her bedside, resolving to tell their next daughter what's what before it's too late. The fade-out is a sweetly murmured "Daddy... It seemed like such a beautiful road...but it was only..." The slimy scoundrel who debauched her is presumably out wreaking his lustful will on more sweet trusting girls. It's the woman who pays...
...been a matter of some years since a Princeton football team has risen to such heights as the present one. And the Tiger's newfound athletic glory is made not less sweet by his sudden leap from the slough of 1930 and 1931. Princeton has a great team, and Princeton men are fully aware of it. A transcontinental trip is not required to prove it. --Daily Princetonian...
...administration of the Act. If this tactical retreat does not achieve the end it seeks--the inducement of more credit into active employment--then the bankers may shiver the more and with better reason, as it is unlikely that Roosevelt will again treat their feelings with such sweet regard...