Word: mississippian
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...Luckiest hanging was that of Will Purvis, 17-year-old Mississippian, convicted of shooting a neighbor in a Bible-belt feud. Hundreds watched the body fall, then tumble to the ground as the noose slipped. When the crowd cried: "Hang him!" the official doctor climbed on the gallows, asked for a show of hands from those who really wanted to see the boy die. Nobody raised his hand. Years later another man confessed the murder...
...last year William Alexander Percy, a slight, short Mississippian with a broad, tall forehead, gave up the management of his 3,000-acre plantation, gave up his 30-year law practice, and settled down to putter, think, remember. Last week Northerners and Southerners could read in Lanterns on the Levee just what kind of memories he had. They covered 54 years of an active, sensitive, civilized life. They showed their author to be not only the "poet laureate of Mississippi" and one of the South's bigger planters, but a U. S. aristocrat in the Greek sense...
...Mississippian, one of the most influential members of the Senate, served notice that he will oppose President Roosevelt's plan to lift the legal limit of the National Debt from $45,000,000,000 to fifty billion...
...gadfly of successive Republican Administrations. Equipped with a deep, mellow drawl, a sharp Southern wit, the tall, loose-jointed Mississippian drew a laugh, scored a hit almost every time he rose to tease, tweak, twit and torment the party in power...
...remain the arduous task of steering it through Floor debate and conference compromise. And this year Pat Harrison is eager to close up his desk, be off for home. It is not that he dislikes Washington, for no Senator enjoys life in the Capital more than this small town Mississippian. A one time college and semiprofessional pitcher, he likes being where he can get off to a big-league baseball game with Vice President Garner as often as possible. He likes being near the Burning Tree Golf Club where he shoots in the 80's with Democratic Senator Barkley...