Word: copperhead
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...even went for walks on brooding Tor Ridge (the locale of Anderson's 1936 play High Tor), to keep his weight down. Says he: "All I could think of was 'God, I wish I were inside!'" So he reminded himself that the ridge was full of copperhead snakes anyway, and gave...
...born in Emporia, Kans., three years after the Civil War ended. His mother was a "black Republican" (abolitionist). His father was a Copperhead Democrat in a town 80% of whose population consisted of Republican ex-servicemen...
Delayed Action. In upstate New York, the unreconstructed Copperhead village of Town Line, which seceded in 1861, decided to vote right away on rejoining the Union...
...Antonio's WOAI offered several prizes, one for the best collector's letter. The winning letter came from twelve-year-old William Wheat of Utopia. While fishing for old tires, Utopia's Willie was bitten by a copperhead snake. He wrote: "We didn't make much on the rubber [247 lb.] after having to pay the hospital and the doctor but anyway we did help lick the Japs and Germans...
...what's really annoying is the fact that the so-called patriotic tunes of World War II are weak little sissy ditties which are no more representative of a fighting-mad nation than they are a tribute to the armed forces which they eulogize. Maybe I'm just a copperhead, but when I hear this kind of trash I can't help thinking of a little boy shouting at the local bully "Just you wait till my big brother gets after you." Another thing, don't forget that these songs are the product of that lucre-loving, back-stabbing boulevard...