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...wreck found. Searchers, starting at the Jones farm, found themselves up against as horrid a spot for a crack-up as can be imagined. The woods into which The Southerner had flopped is dense, cut-over timber, growing out of a dank, quaking bog. In some places the gumbo of muck is four feet deep. Natives call it ''Loblolly," wear hip-boots on the rare occasions they enter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Into Arkansas Loblolly | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

England's Chestnuts, U.S. Gumbo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 11, 1935 | 11/11/1935 | See Source »

...single protest. 5) That not content with getting the nod from the League, she is attempting to lead this country step by step into a morass of commitments and implied "community of interest" to a point where a last desperate jump backward will only find us stuck in the gumbo of our own stupidity. 6) And lastly, that the only thing worse than a bully at a peanut stand is a bully in Grand Central Station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 11, 1935 | 11/11/1935 | See Source »

...Will you be so kind to explain to one marooned in the illiterate gumbo of Virginia, just why you-all are excited over a few justified executions for the protection of the Proletarian State? If one has been found out to be an enemy of society, of advancing society if you please, is there any logical argument why this enemy should not be removed with as little ceremony as possible? I find you offering no objections to the fact that in America the ruling class has been in the habit of executing thousands by the simple manner of keeping them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 7, 1935 | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

...dozen nations must have given pause to even the tall, amiable president of the Waldorf and his man Oscar. Neatly they spiked their problem with a startling innovation ? a U. S. menu U. S. cooked. Mr. Boomer led off with Cape Cods baked in the shell, New Orleans gumbo and Maryland terrapin. His bird was Chesapeake mallard. Frozen applejack preceded Virginia ham and autumn salad which were topped off with soufflé Lugol and coffee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hotels of the World | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

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