Word: agin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LeRoy Collins, who noted that state law was agin it, asked: "What in the world have they been smoking down there...
Book Gresham's evil power is opposed by Brother Cox, the "webbed faced" preacher who tries to close the valley honky-tonk but loses his "holy war agin sin" when Book frames him for "a sight of carrying-on'' with a no-good girl. Fate Laird takes on too much when he gives Bodoc a job and takes the preacher's side against the courthouse-cathouse gang. Laird's son Clay shoots a mean deputy and is convicted of murder in Book Gresham's court. But in the end a sort of moral truce...
...Martin-Rayburn transfer of office had a familiar ring: they had changed places three times before. It reminded Martin of "an old ditty that went something like this: 'Off agin, on agin, gone agin, Finnigin...
...shmoky ol' lamp wuz burnin' bright In Finnigin's shanty all that night- Bilin' down his repoort, wuz Finnigin- An' he writed this here: "Musther Flannigan: Off agin, on agin, Gone agin.-Finnigin...
Died. Strickland Gillilan, 84, oldtime Midwest newspaperman turned humorist, best known for his 1910 Irish-dialect railroader poem, Finnigin to Flannigan ("Off agin, on agin, gone agin.-Finnigin"); in Warrenton...