Word: hidding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Burr, Burr, what has thou done? Thou, has shooted dead great Hamilton. You hid behind a bunch of thistle And shot him dead with a great hoss pistol...
...music that stole, with a mutter of muffled tom-toms, out of Africa. It hid with the Norway rats in the hold, of pitching slave-ships; it crawled between the leaves of missionary Bibles to leap out grimacing and twitching, whenever a buck preacher smote the Book with his barrelhouse fist. The cadence of the cakewalk, wild plantation revels, darktown strutters' balls; the frenetic hallelujahs of jubilee revivals where hundreds of Negroes, drunk with ecstasy, wash in the blood of the Lamb, the shifting, subtle rhythms of such spirituals as All God's Chillun Got Wings and Swing Low, Sweet...
...Coast-Range Christ is of David Carrow, whose innocence knew only love for Christ. David spurned James O'Farrell's wife, fled the War draft, hid in the hills, praying. O'Farrell's wife, Iscariotwise, led a manhunt in the dark. When David took his fierce old father's bullet in the breast, a blinding apocalypse came down upon the hills...
...escape. By virtue of an active mind and a good memory, she was able to recover her jewelry, valued at $50,000, which she had buried in the ground immediately after the train had jumped the rails. Subsequently she drew a map showing the place where the treasure lay hid. "Boy No. 1" of the Standard Oil Co. was despatched to the scene (TIME, June 11, 1923), later returned with what narrowly escaped becoming bandit duty...
...many men had also used. "Where," asked the General with reverence, "did Tom Sawyer find the opening out on to the river bank?" "We're coming to it," answered the guide. "But right here is where he found Injun Joe's gold. . . Yes, sir, the James" boys hid right here in this here cave, and there's the very place they killed two of the detectives that came a lookin' for them. . . . And right here is where the James boys buried them two detectives at, one atop the other...