Word: kentuckian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strain of Kentucky mountaineers and matured in a two-fisted town in Texas. Psychologists, pondering heredity and environment, are not surprised to find him, at 50, ready and able to oppose Benjamin Strong, scion of a long line of publicists and bankers. Fighting is in his blood. No Kentuckian was surprised, last week, when Gov. Flem D. Sampson made "Mel" Traylor a Colonel of the National Guard, named him an aide-de-camp on his personal staff. Chicago claims Banker Traylor, but the South hasn't given him up. After 17 years of hearing the mid-western twang...
Senator Underwood of Alabama (a Kentuckian by birth), one of the abler men of his party, "sound and conservative," who is serving his final term in the Senate, having announced that he will retire next March, had been pressing for an amendment to the Senate rules such as has been favored by Vice President Dawes-an amendment which would require a vote on revenue and appropriation bills to be taken and debate to be shut off by majority petition, so that bills may not be talked to death by a vociferous minority...
...Wang will die with the retirement (let us hope not, for another thirty years) of De Wolf Hopper. Indeed if Hopper had not erected it to its "present perpendicular attitude" "Wang" would be already dead and happy in "innocuous desuetude." But Hopper gives the thing its, authority, as the Kentuckian said of the "corn" in the julep. When he is on (which happily is most of the time) whether to heap new polysyllabies on the head of his obtuse Semegambian followed, or to narrate before the curtain the tragic consequences of "The Wrong Flat", the audience laughs itself sick. When...
...more professorships of natural history, or of science in general, at Beraea College, Kentucky, in memory of Professor Nathaniel Southgate Shaler '62, has already received large contributions from various parts of the country. Professor Shaler, for many years a professor of geology at the University, was a native Kentuckian and very interested in the mountain districts of his state...
...student of the Greek dramatic poets, has carved a miniature Greek amphitheater, so perfect in detail that even the button for turning on the footlights is seen. Another man, attempting to reconcile the material ugliness about him, has made a bas-relief of a beautiful woman. A Kentuckian once carefully cut out his name, and the next hour another Kentuckian came along and whittled out the first Kentuckian's name to make place for his own. Thereby was a famous fend started...