Word: cajun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Home-Ola is no architectural gem. What it lacks in beauty, it makes up in strength. Cajun Jack Willis claims that Home-Ola's plywood walls have proved 20 times stouter than conventional walls, will withstand a 125 mile-an-hour wind...
...months grim-faced Cajun shrimpers practiced on the bayous, in their tricky, pencil-shaped boats. The Cajuns of Louisiana's lower marshlands take their yearly pirogue race as seriously as Kentucky takes its Derby. This week on sultry Bayou Barataria, the 29 strongest paddlers lined up for the start...
Gumbo Ya-Ya (which is Cajun for "Everybody talks at once") contains instructive chapters on crapshooting, how to play the lottery, the decaying Creoles, the decaying plantations, slaves and slave tortures, buried treasure, the New Orleans slums, the Mississippi River front, its roustabouts and their jargon, and New Orleans cemeteries to which, during rainy spells, coffins sometimes have to be brought in boats and forced under the muddy water with poles...
...only one was renominated. Victory went to the reform regime of Governor Sam Houston Jones, whose favorite candidate, robust, balding Felix Edward Hebert (pronounced E'-bare), won the Democratic nomination (tantamount to election) to Congress in the First District in a walk. Son of full-blooded Cajun parents, Nominee Hebert was city editor of the New Orleans States last summer when the paper broke the building scandal which doomed the crumbling Long machine...