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Word: trash (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bittersweet or wild grape covering a stone wall. It is similarly eloquent of Nature, similarly unobtrusive, hardy and humbly fair to behold. It is the story of a Kentucky hill child, Ellen Chesser, groping instinctively through a scrawny, vagabond adolescence, with no attention from her roaming, horse-swapping, white-trash parents. The father settles as a tenant-helper on tobacco farms and Ellen's maidenhood is more stable. Her lanky, hungry little frame rounds out and her nature, though always puzzled, sensitive and secretive, is opened by friends, security and small domestic possessions-a heifer, a bed. She suffers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

...acquaintance, running over leagues of attractively barren prairies, and avenging the Indians' murder of his owner's old father. It is, perhaps, too much to expect that the cinema will supply its animal actors with good stories when its expensive mortals must be content with so much trash. It is, however, the opinion of some cynics who go to watch cinema actors and actresses that the more they see of some people the more they love their horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Devil Horse | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

LULU BELLE ? An exciting blast of trash about a Negro singer who graduated to a luxurious Paris boudoir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays: Apr. 19, 1926 | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

...steals my purse steals trash; . . . But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: English Impeached | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

...folks say that I haven't a thought in my head worth while and all I read is trash. But, on top of all that, I do read TIME and enjoy it immensely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Harding Scored | 6/29/1925 | See Source »

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