Word: ozarks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poor people of Booger Hollow, Ark., deep in the Ozark Mountains, had taken years & years to save $75 toward building a community house. Last week they invested the $75 in defense bonds, reported the matter to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. Said they: "What good is a community house without freedom...
...Shepherd of the Hills (Paramount) is homespun Harry Carey, who returns to his Ozark mountain home after a long prison term and proceeds to restore the feuding hillbillies to their once kindly ways. Pictorially superb, the Technicolored film suffers from its endless moralizing and Cloud-Cuckoo language. Shown at Branson, Mo., in the heart of the Ozarks, it so stirred one native that he picketed the local cinema with a placard: UNFAIR TO LOCAL CHARACTERS...
Known as one of St. Louis' ablest attorneys, Hay is a big, heavy-set man with a black mustache, a good showman who loves "fightin' and speakin','' a classic corn-country orator who began making speeches at the age of eleven on the Ozark farm where he was born...
...only large group of older Americans which is doing more than reproducing itself is the Appalachian-Ozark hillbilly farmer, or his neighbor in the Piedmont." So sociologists were told last week at University of New Hampshire, by one of their number who had an interesting theory to propound. Discussing the "Second Colonization of New England" (by Irish, French-Canadians and South and East European immigrants since 1840), Harvard's Carle Clark Zimmerman explained why old New England stock could not survive the melting pot. Some of his points...
...Ghostland (Lippincott; $2.50), Fred Rothermell looks in on similar folk in the Ozarks. The Fulton family of Brooklyn, N. Y. arrives in the drought country to inherit a farm about the time John Steinbeck's Joad family (The Grapes of Wrath) leaves for California. Rothermell's prose is less artificial than Steinbeck's, his Ozark dialect more difficult than that of WPA's Tennesseans. Sample: "I done lak seed a sicknun woming a widdur nur no bline gurl withouten no pappy, but shore ez youah name ez Hogner I makun yourn short a pappy, so help...