Word: baled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dialect perfect, the antics convulsing. Porgy, a purple-black beggar with crippled legs and a pungent goat, croons to his scampering dice, prays with his neighbors in Catfish Row, contemplates the insignificance of man. In a shadowy triangle involving Crown, a cinnamon stevedore with a chest like a cotton-bale, and his big wench Bess, Porgy's soul undergoes the extremes of compassion and ruthless violence, much as the city now basks sleepily in hot sun, now is hammered with a furious hurricane, now basks again...
...regions of the cotton belt harassed by drought, especially in Texas." Indeed, private estimates of the coming crop have experienced similar (though lesser) increases for the same reason. But on the announcement of the last Government estimate, cotton prices on the New York Cotton Exchange broke $8 a bale to the lowest figures this year, and cotton traders are just now inclined to speak of Government estimators and statisticians in terms completely uncomplimentary...
Texas is easily the premier cotton state, with an estimated crop this year of 4,255,000 bales; next comes Oklahoma, with 1,272,000 bales; and then Georgia, with 1,118,000; Mississippi, with 1,113,000; and Arkansas, with 1,068,000. No other state promises to have a million bale crop this year, although the next state in order, Alabama, is set down...
...fairest flower of Henrico County, was coming down to dinner in Todd Hundred, Va. For three days a party had been in progress to celebrate her engagement to Gawin Todd. But of all the company which, assembled in the hall, waited for her to descend, it was for Richard Bale that she wore a yellow rose in her bodice-for him that she sang, as she came, the dying fall of a sweet air. He, a Bale of Balisand, had been, like other Virginia gentlemen, a soldier. Fire and ice had altered the temper of his youth. Back again where...
...narrative with politics and giving history's skeleton,' flesh and wit in the lives of his characters is, though a difficult artifice, perfectly persuasive. To say that we have advanced in our system of government since Revolutionary times is to say that Jefferson was right and Richard Bale was wrong. It is an opinion generally accepted. Mr. Hergeheimer, indeed, holds no brief for the proud Virginia Federalists. Their courtly manner of life was maintained at great social expense. This book reminds the reader that government by gentle men for their peers as against government by "the unbred...