Word: antebellum
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James Street, who is best known for his rawboned bestsellers about the antebellum South (Mingo Dabney, Tap Roots), is modest enough not to confuse his merchandise with literature. "Those of us who write for profit," he once said, "must never forget that if we drink the punch we must take the pokes." The book business being what it is, Novelist Street is pretty sure to get another bowlful of punch for The Velvet Doublet...
...back to the good old antebellum days grandpa used to hark back to so often, we find they had very little of the political and economical ailments with which we are so sorely afflicted. We will find, also, that they had no telephones, telegraph, airplanes, radios, television, automobiles, and such trains as they had would not run faster than 25 miles per hour...
...other plantation buildings were purchased by Henry Ford last March for $10,000. Section by section the century-old brick structures were dismantled, barged down the Savannah River, up the Ogeechee to become the seat of the 75,000-acre domain which Mr. Ford has pieced together from 30 antebellum plantations for a winter home in Bryan and Chatham Counties...
Despite the discouraging attitude of Congress toward army affairs, the War Department advocates of "preparedness", managed during the month of August to start no less than 27,000 young citizens on the road of military training. The Citizens' Military Training Camps, worthy successors to Plattsburg of antebellum days, struggled for mere existence in their first season, 1921; this summer they were a tremendous success. The training was well planned, mistakes of the previous year were corrected, and the benefits accruing to the government and to the men taking the training were fully as great as even the most optimistic could...