Word: remus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Georgia last week began raising $100,000 to build a monument to one of its two great literary heroes, the late Joel Chandler Harris, author of the "Uncle Remus" stories.* Throughout the State's public schools, where his birthday in December is annually celebrated, collection boxes were to be distributed so that moppets with dimes, nickels and pennies could share in honoring the man who gave them the tales of the foxiness of Brer Fox and the agility of Brer Rabbit. First substantial gift came from Col. Sam Tate, president of Georgia Marble Co., who lives in a huge...
Joel Chandler Harris was primarily a workaday newspaper man who for 24 years wrote editorials and features for the Atlanta Constitution. It was the Constitution which first printed an "Uncle Remus" story and D. Appleton & Co. which first persuaded its author to put a group of them in book form. (First edition: 1880.) A serious student of folklore and Southern dialects, Joel Harris claimed no invention for his stories, contended that he merely compiled them from tales told to him by Negroes...
Painfully shy, Author Harris would completely lose his voice when he met strangers, was badly frightened when President Theodore Roosevelt invited him to spend a night at the White House. The last year of his life he spent editing an unsuccessful monthly called Uncle Remus's Magazine. Two weeks before he died of cirrhosis of the liver in 1908, he was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church...
...field as it moved around toward the Canal Turn. Not until the horses came thundering heavily past the stands the first time around could the dense, shouting mob packed against the rail get a clear idea of how the race was going. Colliery Band went past first, with Remus, Kellsboro Jack and Delaneige running close behind...
...Becher's Brook the second time, Kellsboro Jack, Remus. Delaneige and Slater, the horse Jock Whitney sold a fortnight before the race, were setting the pace. Gregalach missed the jump, fell and broke a blood-vessel. Miss Paget's Golden Miller, the prime favorite, lost his rider. At Valentine's Brook, Kellsboro Jack, getting a beautiful ride from little David Dudley Williams whom many experts consider England's best steeplechase jockey, took the lead. In the last mile huge Pelorus Jack, who caused several bad spills when he swung across the track in last year...