Word: sot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visit. His Aunt Sarah an me was stirrin Apple Butter out back of the kitchen wen they drove up. Henry jumped out an come over to help me stir. Somethin caught his interest an he turned round and afore you could say jackrobinson he backed up and sot right down in the kittle. Well twant bad enough to burn him much but for few days he had to eat his meals standin up. An' the accident didn't hurt the Apple Butter nuther...
...demand the seamen's release. "I have obtained unquestionable proof," he said, "that these sailors paid their taxi fare." Snarled one of the Japanese police officers at Lieut. Pack-Beresford: "You say you're a British officer. We say you're nothing but a drunken sot. Get out of here...
...rather more than a quack doctor'; and there were also three or four 'respectable characters' who had not been to other colleges. But there was a sad example of the over-bright freshman, who, with too much time on his hands, fell in with gamblers and 'became a dissipated sot', along with a classmate who turned out an 'expert gamester.' One of an old Bay Colony family 'never had an idea in his life, except to grease his hair and clean his buckles.' A descendant of a long line of ministers 'was spoilt by a residence in Virginia, where...
...contrasting morals. It is true that Minna Harris, the strongest character in the book, finds little time to bother herself with moral reflections. She is a June among prostitutes who supports her family on the profits of her popularity among travelling sports. The family includes, besides four children, a sot of a husband and Minna's unregenerate mother. But both Vergil Harris, the husband and Grandma, are set pieces. They live their restricted lives in the Harris' hill-top shanty, they are used for the purposes of background, but they do not often carry the story forward. Neither does...
...write but you can hear better than you can see. You are accustomed to see with your eyes differently to the way you hear with your ears, and perhaps that is what makes it hard to read my works. . . . Youngsters with the least education get it quicker than those sot in their ways. . . . I have not invented any device, any style, but write in the style that is me. . . . No, no, no, no, it is not all repetition. I always change the words a little." When Miss Stein appeared confused about public affairs, someone asked if she knew Calvin Coolidge...