Word: ozarks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charles ("Pretty Boy") Floyd, 30, Oklahoma badman and bank robber. Born in Georgia, raised in the Ozarks, Floyd in 1925 began a model training for crime: five years in the Missouri Penitentiary for highway robbery. Later he was largely responsible for the fact that Oklahoma country banks at that time paid the highest robbery insurance rate in the country. In one year he killed two Government informers in Kansas City, a Federal agent, a policeman. Last year he was spotted as the man who led the Kansas City massacre in Union Station during which four officers and their prisoner were...
...from Labrador to North Carolina. Some turned south into Tennessee where they were stopped by a wave of Sioux pushing straight across the country from the southwest. From the southwest also came the Muskhogean and proto-Muskhogean peoples who trickled into the Gulf States (Choctaw, Creek, Chicksaw). From the Ozark Mountains in Missouri the Iroquois crossed the Mississippi River. Tennessee and Kentucky, split into two groups. One turned north and settled around Lakes Erie and Ontario. The other (Cherokee) kept straight ahead until they reached the North Carolina mountains. Mapmaker Bushnell thinks it almost certain that the vanguards of these...
...laborers. Actually about 5% of those hired were skilled. Many strange things had to be found for the white collar people to do. For example, last week in Missouri a group of professional singers headed by Miss Edna Haseltine was hired at 35¢ an hour, sent out into the Ozark hills to give grand opera?only it was not called that for fear the natives would not attend. Admissions charged in different towns were turned back to buy materials for local CWA projects. Elsewhere unemployed musicians were hired to give public symphonies, unemployed actors to give public plays. Said...
...Pulitzer Prize has not yet been given to a novel of the Ozark hills. This year it well might be. In The Woods Colt Author Thames Williamson has written the U. S. novel of 1933; its only serious rival so far is Anthony Adverse, which is not really indigenous to the U. S. The Woods Colt, as American as the dialect in which it is written, as the quick-tripping, minor-keyed banjo songs of the mountaineers, is as blood-stirring as an old ballad. The Book-of-the-Month Club, embarrassed by October riches, could not pass up this...
...time, made a break and got away. He would have been safe enough in the hills, hiding among his friends and kinsfolk, but soon he was not content to hide. He began to believe that Tillie was unfaithful; they quarreled, and when his uncle's still was raided, Ozark logic said the Starbucks were at the bottom of it. Clint joined the drumming-out party that drove Tillie and her father out of the hills, and in that night's fracas shot his old enemy, the deputy who had put handcuffs on him. Now Clint had to hide...