Word: peckerwood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hell for Sartain. All this-trouble in his own state, trouble in the South, trouble in the U.S. and trouble in the world-Orval Faubus had wrought. Why? The answers lie deep within a politician who fought his way out of a peckerwood background and a backwoods wilderness-and never wants to return...
...operator, "she nearly electrocuted herself and was home in time for lunch." But a job selling roller skates at Macy's pays off. She meets and marries Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside, "the richest man under 40 south of Washington, D.C." She visits her husband's ancestral plantation, Peckerwood, meets his evil-tempered old mother, and trails a fox hunt in her hus band's Duesenberg. "I just hope I won't be sick when they kill that poor little fox," she confides to nephew Pat. Poor Auntie Mame has "never fully mastered the automobile...