Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...College, has never been exhibited in any museum in the east. A few of the works have been loaned for special showings in galleries such as the New York Museum of Modern Art, but this will be the first time so many paintings will be seen east of the Mississippi...
...pros discounted in advance the howls of conservative Southerners. But the howling began immediately. In the Senate, up rose Mississippi's triple-chinned James O. Eastland and cried: "The Southern wing of the party will not follow Mr. Hague's direction and will not vote for any candidate ... we think is inimical to the welfare of our people...
...designated spot and left it there for 40 minutes, but nobody came for it. So Crump cleared his throat and read to reporters the contents of the grip: "To the coward perpetrating this dastardly thing: anyone could take a white mouse with baby teeth and run you in the Mississippi River...
This first book is the impressive result of a bold, if not wholly successful, effort to write the Great American Novel. It is also the latest and plainest sign that native American and recent European traditions of art and thought can flow together and that this cultural Mississippi, though full of snags and shallows, may be one of the brightest things moving in the world. Raintree County is a historical novel of Indiana by an Indiana boy; it is also a philosophical novel (a rare thing in U.S. fiction), and a studied work of art that is striking enough...
...Richard Taylor, son of Old Rough & Ready, surrendered the last of the Confederate armies east of the Mississippi...