Word: feudin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They say you should love thy neighbor but those nasty Bow Street Boys, Mother Advocate and Junior 'Poon, have been feudin' again. It is quite a surprise, relationships on that boundary are generally as amicable as the U. S. Canada line...
Rupp, realizing that in Kentucky his teams were playing in "feudin' country," set out long ago to make every game a vendetta. He adopted a trade-mark brown suit and a pugnacious air, took to arguing with the fans, bowing deeply to right & left when he was hissed, waggling a finger like a 10-20-30 villain. Soon Kentucky's basketball crowds grew tenfold. The whole countryside now turns out to see the hated "Man in the Brown Suit" and his "pore li'l mountain boys." So far this season, Kentucky has lost only two games...
...begun last November when the Senate was debating poll-tax repeal. Because a quorum was lacking, the Sergeant at Arms was ordered to arrest absent members, march them straight to the floor. A Jurney deputy captured Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar in a hotel room and made Senator McKellar feudin' mad. Last week the gentleman from Tennessee showed just how mad that...
...Athens, Ga., in a feudin' atmosphere that made the Hatfields and McCoys seem like good neighbors, the University of Georgia made a ramblin' wreck of Georgia Tech (34-to-0), blasting its dream of an undefeated season-just as its own dream had been blasted by belittled Auburn the week before. The Georgia team immediately turned down a bid to the nearby Sugar Bowl at New Orleans, accepted a bid to the Rose Bowl at Pasadena...
...Little Theatre nights oldsters come down from their hillside cabins to watch the Caney Players put on Shakespeare, Everyman, Gilbert & Sullivan, original mountain plays like Feudin' and Larnin'. Last week ten softspoken, fresh-scrubbed Caney Players were in Boston on an annual 5,000-mile, seven-week crusade to spread the gospel of Caney Creek Community Center...