Word: ruint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ruint. Pondering over this title, one stumbles on the truth-"ruint" is what happens to a girl when she gets careless. That's how they pronounce it in the Carolina mountains. This particular girl was careless enough to get herself kissed on the lips by a vagrant Northern millionaire. Thereupon, the simple village menfolk consider her disgraced and rally round to marry her and reinsure her honor. Shotguns and tar are meted out to the unhappy Northerner. A rope is around his neck when the lady, having kissed, decides to tell...
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