Word: fightin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Known as one of St. Louis' ablest attorneys, Hay is a big, heavy-set man with a black mustache, a good showman who loves "fightin' and speakin','' a classic corn-country orator who began making speeches at the age of eleven on the Ozark farm where he was born...
...writin', fightin' editor is Fred Sullens of Jackson, Miss.'s Daily News. He is the kind of newspaperman who once said of a politician who threatened him with physical violence: "If nothing less than a few buckets of blood from the veins of the editor of the Daily News will quench your thirst for human gore . . . come on and spill it-if you can. Being the party threatened, the editor is entitled to choice of weapons. [The threatener] may arm himself with cowdung and shingles at the respectful distance of 40 paces, standing with his face...