Word: remus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Demi-Rome. It was not an easy matter to decide. The world's oldest profession could claim a long and proud history in Italy. Romulus and Remus, the brothers who founded Rome, it was said, were themselves the bastards of a vestal virgin who yielded to Mars for a consideration. In 1490 a city vicar reported to the Vatican that Rome's prostitutes numbered more than "6,800, not even counting those who live in concubinage and those who, not publicly but in secret, maintain five or six women in their houses." Sixtus V (1585-90) wanted...
...Buckshot's detailed, homely communications to "Ed," which he started nine years ago, now appear regularly in seven Texas newspapers (including one in Czech) and occasionally in the Houston Post and the Houston Press. Sometimes as hard-boiled as Hammett, sometimes as folksy as Uncle Remus, the columns not only have earned him a journalistic reputation but have helped get him elected sheriff for five straight terms...
Over a Barrel. Jimmy Dobbs knew he could not depend on air traffic alone to support his restaurants. So he tricked them out in local color (his Atlanta restaurant is decorated with Uncle Remus murals and has a Negro "Uncle Remus" doorman perched on a cotton bale outside) and collected recipes from famed U.S. restaurants to lure non-travelers to his tables...
...lower lobby is devoted to the works of Joel Chandler Harris. Some of Harris' letters, manuscripts, and criticisms of his stories are exhibited, including the "Uncle Remus Stories," "Stories of Georgia," "The Story of Aaron," and "Tales of the Home Folks in Peace...
...Professor Tinbergen-and upon you, too, TIME ! Do you not know that there are still extant a few of us anthropomorphic-minded souls who still clasp Uncle Remus and Ernest Thompson Seton to our bosoms? We prefer to believe, since birds do it and bees do it, that they (and the sticklebacks) feel romantic about what Professor Tinbergen insists is merely another dismal reflex...