Word: humoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HUMOR OF THE OLD DEEP SOUTH- edited by Arthur Palmer Hudson-Macmillan...
Readers who are looking for kinky-haired darky side-splitters and dry drawls of whittled wit will be sadly disappointed by Humor of the Old Deep South. They would have right on their side if they called the title a misnomer. Not primarily a collection of famed or fameworthy anecdotes but a regional anthology. Compiler Hudson's book is an academic barn-full of curious gleanings picked up from old Southern almanacs, church histories, colonial archives. State records, local newspapers, magazines. Professor Hudson's cross-section of the pre-Civil War Deep South, which he calls Misslouala (Mississippi...
...Humor of the Old Deep South is divided into sections on Indians, Hunters & Fishermen, Doctors, Lawyers, Politicians, Preachers, Players & Showmen, Barkeepers & Bonifaces, Broadhorn Boys & Steamboat Bullies, Pirates & Picaroons, Duelists, Ha'nts, Greenhorns, Ladies, Darkies et al. The humorous incidents have been laid so long in lavender that they have mostly lost their tang; but those who can turn the clock back in order to laugh might enjoy the tale about the young doctor who cupped the Negro wench's sternum; the anecdotes about Lorenzo ("Cosmopolite") Dow, pioneer of Southern Methodism; Mike Fink's misadventures with the Deacon...
...Another humor-provoking excerpt states: "The biggest attraction of the Drake Relays, as usual, was Queen of the Relays." The Queen was beautiful and occupied an important ten minutes in our crowded time schedule Saturday afternoon, but if she was the biggest attraction, 18,000 people missed seeing: 1) a new U. S. outdoor record at 1,000 yards (time, 2:11.2) by Glenn Cunningham closely pressed by a fine Eastern runner, Harry Williamson of North Carolina; 2) a new U. S. outdoor record in the two-mile run by Don Lash (time, 9:10.6); 3) a new record...
CAGE ME A PEACOCK-Noel Langley- Morrow ($2.50). The dead hand of the late Thorne Smith lies clammily on Author Langley's pages. Supposedly an uproariously racy revamping of the legend of Lucrece, its rowdiness is no louder than Thorne Smith's, its dreary humor not much worse...