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...died, Preacher Howard had a hard time dissuading an uncle from going out with his shotgun to find the man who gave the boy the liquor. Said the uncle after Howard prayed and pleaded with him for two hours: "Here take this gun lest I change my mind-killin's too good for them Saxons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Walkin Preacher | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...doing things down there." At Chapel Hill, Jones met Paul Green, the Carolina dramatist; halfway through a performance of Green's "The Field God," in which Jones' daughter took part, Green stalked up to him and chortled: "Gawd ain't this a folk play, it's got hog-guts, killin' 'n everythin' bloody." Professor Jones will vehemently deny any charges that he ever wrote any folk drama...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Howard Mumford Jones | 3/10/1943 | See Source »

...scalping parties. But beauteous, powerful, 20-year-old Phoebe had Vision. "Right where ye stand," she told a dubious group of fellow Tucsonians, "right where this filthy, crumblin', ornery corner of hell is reelin' 'n' roarin' 'n' robbin' 'n' killin', there'll be a city-and wimmin 'n' homes 'n' streets 'n' churches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pack Rat With Vision | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...Well, good night, boys," he says. "I ain't sleepy, but I got some gravel in my shoes and it's killin' my feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Living Legend | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...needs a little liquor and second, dem what wants it gits it whether they buys it or steals it." Why he left the Senate: "Cause o' de Ku Kluxes. I was staying at a colored hotel when word comes to me that de Ku Kluxes wuz killin' all de nigguhs, some by just plain killin', some by drownin' and some by burnin'. Den that night, I found a note under my door. It said, 'Green, when we git back here we don't want to find you here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Visitor from the Past | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

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