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Word: potentest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1935-1935
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...Erskine Caldwell's novels (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre). But this new Caldwell story will not give many readers trouble, for it reads throughout like a complete travesty of the author's previous method. Journeyman is the story of an itinerant preacher. Semon Dye, the "potentest" man that ever drove a ramshackle remnant of a Model T Ford down a Georgia turnpike. Semon is a crap-shooting, corn-guzzling, philandering highbinder with a gimlet eye and a ready pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Georgia Preacher | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

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