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...bite in it, too. The days is gittin' late. Purty soon it'll be time to git out the old houn'-dog an' start out after coons, some o' these frosty nights, or maybe git a possum up a persimmon tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ozarks | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

...show base motives on the part of the lover (Monroe Owsley), persimmon-mouthed Helen Twelvetrees is made (unlike Rose Allen) a three-million-dollar heiress. Cad Owsley's villainy is further pointed by his having changed his name. The girl's father (Robert Warwick) and brother (Robert Young) see through his disingenuousness. Helen does not. To force a marriage, Owsley takes her to a hotel overnight, confronts the father next morning. Wild-eyed from an all-night search, the brother is knocked down by the suitor, gets a gun and shoots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 25, 1932 | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

...covered with slender yellow flowers. Near it there is a group of three trees which attract at this season a good deal of attention, because, although they belong to a much warmer climate they appear perfectly well contented here, the southern Cypress, the southern "Yellow-wood," and the Persimmon. The last of these is in full fruit now, and the frost has rendered the golden fruit quite edible. The greenhouses are filled as full as they can well be with interesting plants, especially those of economic importance, such as the species which furnish coffee, tea, pepper, Peruvian bark, guava...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Botanical Garden. | 11/20/1888 | See Source »

...ultra-persimmon toward medical women...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/20/1882 | See Source »

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