Word: gallused
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...Corpse. The big change came with express-train momentum, but it was a long time getting started. The plight of the old Cotton South was well illustrated by Henry Grady, managing editor of the Atlanta Constitution. To a Boston audience in 1889, he described the funeral of a "one-gallus" man in Pickens County, Ga. Said Grady...
...That's a joke, son," quipped one of the editors of the Lampoon yesterday, and Kenny Delmar, better known to his kids as Senator Claghorn, burst into an uncontrollable spasm of gallus snapping. This worthy had come north from his New York publicity agent's office to accept the sheepskin of "Doctor of Lamphonery" in the Bow Direct aviary. Everybody thought it was a riot when it turned out to be a sheep, everybody but the sheep, that...
...tired, bitter man, racked with illness that will not leave him, "red gallus" Talmadge stumped the rural counties of Georgia, the "cracker country," hoarsely shouting his paean of white supremacy and fanning the flames of race hatred. He stuck to the back country, because it has always been Talmadge territory, and because he knew that in Georgia it's country units, not popular votes, that win elections. By last night, Talmadge had 249 units in his pocket, with only 206 necessary for election...
...Georgia would never have thrown off this feudal custom had it not been for its young (37) and energetic Governor Ellis Gibbs Arnall. Having spent two years ridding his state of the influences left by gallus-snapping Gene Talmadge, Governor Arnall jumped into the poll-tax battle with both feet...
Died. James Edward ("Pa") Ferguson, 73, homespun, gallus-snapping Texas politico; of apoplexy; in Austin, Tex. In 1917, during his second term as Texas' Governor, he was impeached for using state funds to pay private debts. Barred from further office-holding in Texas, Pa sponsored his wife "Ma" on a bargain billing, "Get two Governors for the price of one." Ma served two terms as Governor (at public functions she always slipped off her shoes to rest her bunions), signed over 3,000 pardons on Pa's advice...