Word: jims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Willis, a mean, unmarried, sturdy and unscrupulous cotton farmer; because he wants a son, he proposes to his hired girl. Her rough and ready steady, Jim Dolf (Elliott Nugent), has a fight with Farmer Willis, in the course of which he inflicts the injury that makes necessary a sawbone's attention. When this has been supplied, Mr. Willis marries little Amy and discovers that he is incapable of begetting any child. With pathos that comes close to bathos, he allows the hired girl to fly away with her true sweetie; he will marry a rawboned backwoodswoman, because she wants...
...Jim (William Boyd) was a fireman...
...Philo McCullough) an engineer. Both loved snub-nosed Kate (Jobyna Ralston) daughter of the lunch room lady. Jim warns Bat to go slowly round the curve. Bat speeds up, skids, smashes into the ditch. Unhurt, Jim fires up old Engine No. 99, hauls on the mail bags, rushes to Medicine Bend on time, winning the contract and Kate...
There is the British Hoover, introduced to the United States by Senator Jim Reed. This Hoover is supposed to be more loyal to King George than to the spirit of America. There is Hoover, the radical--the determined engineer, if you would remember, who would turn industry upside down. It has now been noted that Hoover has placed no radical plans for the reorganization of industry before Congress; that he is about as resolute and as enthusiastic a defender of the American capitalist scene; and that he aims to coax rather than to compel the business men with whom...
...West Virginia has two Sharp brothers in politics and they are identical twins. Summers H. Sharp, circuit judge at Marlinton, W. Va., often visits Charleston, the capital, where George Sharp is Secretary of State. When both are in town at once, people rub their eyes and Negroes get the "jim-jams." George Sharp has been mentioned as a gubernatorial candidate and West Virginians say that, should he choose to run, he could (with Summers Sharp's help) campaign in two parts of the State at once, and, if elected, attend the executive office only half the time...