Word: leota
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Welty can wring humor from the Southern idioms without mocking them. In Petrified Man, a beautician named Leota reminisces about her recent courtship: "Honey, 'me an' Fred, we met in a rumble seat eight months ago and we was practically on what you might call the way to the altar inside of half an hour." In The Wide Net, a none-too-bright husband thinks his pregnant wife has drowned herself; an awkwardly large party is assembled to drag the Pearl River. Of course, no body is found, but Doc, who owns the net, pronounces himself pleased with...