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...surely one of the great U.S. folk stories. It has sunk into the popular mind with Li'l Abner connotations, a confused impression of moonshiners, hillbillies, revenue officers, and verbs with "a" in front of them ("I don't feel like runnin', I'm a-goin' t'fight"). Actually, the Hatfield-McCoy feud was a tragedy, violent and unrelenting, with its characters, doomed and possessed, living their parts with fixed intensity...
Long and Jimmy Morrison got down on all fours, playing the game of politics. Morrison confided last week: "The other day I got my rumor factory goin' on the story that Earl has cancer of the throat. I know it ain't so, but that's politics...
Explanation. Last week, Mrs. Noggins sounded off on the dollar crisis. Said she: " 'Tis awful 'ard, you see, to realize you're goin' broke when you're spendin' your capital and 'avin' a whale of a time, same as poor Uncle 'Erbert when 'e mortgaged 'is 'ouse in Liverpool and lived like a prince until the sheriff arrived along with three widows, suin' for breach of promise. . . . Well, the way I read it, we can't pay for the goods we get from the States unless...
...Arkansas, whom Randolph asked about witchcraft, put it differently: "Them things are goin' on same as they always did, but it's all under cover nowadays. The young folks lives too fast an' heedless. More than half of 'em are bewitched anyhow, so they don't care what happens. It looks like the Devil's got the country by the tail, on a downhill pull...
...Bout coupla monts ago business started gettin' stinkin'. We was losin' money, but fast. I gotta do somethin' to goose da place up. Now I'm a sport lover, see. So I figure maybe dese guys is goin' to hockey games or fights, an' I say, why not bring hockey or fights here, so guys can see sports and drink atta same time. So I buy dese gadgets. Slump in business stopped...