Word: cracker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cross Creek (Book-of-the-Month Club selection for April) is her reminiscent, unhurried, humorous account of how she discovered and took possession of a new U.S. literary landscape (Florida), a new literary folk (the Florida backwoods people) and the Cracker idiom whose Shakespearean and Chaucerian turns struck her sensitive ear, when she first heard them, like a blow. Above all, Cross Creek is a prose poem about the deceptively monotonous Florida land, whose deceptively soft-spoken people have become merely its human adaptation...
...most notable autobiography was that of the Indian Nationalist leader Jawaharlal Nehru ($4); the most engaging was John Masefield's In The Mill ($2); and for those interested there was Editor in Politics ($3.50), second volume in Josephus Daniels' cracker-box marathon of total recall. Henry Mencken (Newspaper Days) also continued his memoirs...
...before, the soldiers with mud behind their ears got a wholehearted vote of thanks. Most impressed by their virtuosity were British observers, who knew what crack German Pionierkorps men can do. The British said they had never seen anything like it. Tearing down or building up-the engineers were cracker jacks at either...
This neat bit of doggerel by Jack Tarver (Macon Telegraph) passed from mouth to mouth in Georgia last week. But to no avail: Governor Gene Talmadge, who has taken his bounden oath to drive all foreigners* out of the Cracker State, won his first victory and expelled a "foreigner," Iowa-born Walter Cocking, dean of the College of Education at the University of Georgia. Talmadge charge: that Cocking dared to hope that white and Negro teachers might study together at a graduate school (still in the idea stage) proposed near Athens (Ga.). Ten of the State's 15 regents...
...speech you heard on the radio last night may be the last major declaration of American policy in this war. Within the United States it narrows the field of democratic discussion, and weakens the position of our democratic machinery: the Congress, the meeting hall, yes, even the cracker barrel. Decisions are up to the President how: "Our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor" are pledged. Capital and labor are to submit to the President's boards; all must play their part, and no one must ever doubt in our ability...