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Word: arkansaw (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thomas Bangs Thorpe on the charms of Arkansas: "Why, stranger, just breathe Arkansaw air and it will make you snort like a horse." (Mosquitoes? "Well, stranger . . . it is a fact that they are rather enormous. [But] if they are large, Arkansaw is large, her varments are large, her rivers are large. A small mosquito would be of no more use in Arkansaw than preaching in a cane-brake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Preachers, Varments, Planners | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

Barnside humor like this made On a Slow Train Through Arkansaw a best-seller on trains and newsstands in the early 1900s. The two-bit joke book was the making of Author Thomas W. Jackson and the unmaking of Arkansas. No matter how the State progressed, no matter how its cities grew, it was always backwoods to the rest of the U.S. Arkansans developed a mass inferiority complex unique in U.S. history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARKANSAS: Prejudice & Pride | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...square-dance album, Swing Your Partner ($3.25), had sold nearly 2,000 sets fortnight after publication. Columbia had followed with Square Dances ($2.50). Decca, which had already issued single square-dance discs, humped itself to get out albums. The strains of Hull's Victory, Portland Fancy, Buffalo Girl, Arkansaw Traveler were loud in the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Square Dances for White Collars | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

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