Word: carolinian
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...smaller roles throughout the week were several U. S. singers who made favorable showings. Contralto Anna Kaskas won an engagement in the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air, a series of broadcasts sponsored throughout the winter by Sherwin-Williams Co. (paint). Basso Norman Cordon, a towering North Carolinian, was impressive as the ill-used father when he pronounced his curse on Rigoletto, did even better as the ludicrous circus manager in The Bartered Bride. In Rigoletto the swashbuckling assassin was Baritone John Gurney of Jamestown, N. Y., who took up music after Harvard Business School. Marie's mother...
...bales of cotton annually, sells cotton in virtually every textile centre on earth. By now Senator Smith has detailed data on about everything Cottonman Clayton ever did since the day he was born in Tupelo, Miss. 56 years ago. Yet the most serious charge that the South Carolinian has ever been able to make is that Cottonman Clayton "dominated" the cotton market...
...South Carolinian of Dutch ancestry, James Longstreet went through most of the paces of a good professional soldier. At West Point he was always near the bottom of his class, graduated not much higher than his friend Ulysses S. Grant. Like his contemporaries in the service, Longstreet served in the Mexican War. By the time the Civil War started he had settled down in the paymaster department. His experience and his massive self-confidence started him off in the Confederate Army as a brigadier-general. "Six feet tall, broad as a door, hairy as a goat," Longstreet was compact...
...more than just an animal story. Foxhunters might claim it, with some justice, as a sporting book, for it sings the glories of the chase. And Southerners could point with pride not only to the color of Author Harriss' style but to the knowledgeable way he handles the Carolinian flora and fauna, not to speak of human whites and blacks. And readers need to be neither centaurs nor Southerners to see in this little book (240 pp.) a lot of life...
...South Carolinian, nephew and reverse-namesake of Brigadier General Hagood Johnson of the Confederacy, Johnson Hagood was graduated from West Point. Later he taught philosophy to the cadets at the Military Academy, where philosophy has mostly to do with mechanics, hydraulics, aerodynamics. From pedagogy he went to the Artillery. In 1917 he was sent to France where his executive abilities were soon recognized. He organized the A. E. F.'s Line of Communications, later did the same for the Service of Supply, saw combat service in the Argonne...