Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joel Chandler Harris Jr. undoubtedly knows the language of Southern Negroes, but before his suggested explanation of "spit an' image" be accepted (TIME, Oct. 11), let your readers consider a passage in a 17th Century play. In 1694, Edward Ravenscroft's Canterbury Guests was given its first performance. Scene 2 of Act III is given over to a trumped-up charge against Sir Barnaby Buffler that he is the father of children by two women of unsavory reputation. One of them, Dazie, accuses him as follows...
...fall Duke did nothing notable except tie its ancient rival, the University of North Carolina, 0-to-0. In 1932 Duke for the first time since 1920 defeated North Carolina (7-to-0). When a controversy over boxing between Virginia and Tulane precipitated the long impending split in the Southern Conference the following year. Duke wai the strongest team in the new Southern Conference and Alabama, coached by Notre Dame's Frank Thomas, topped the new Southeastern Conference...
...State line from Chattanooga. The towering bluffs of Lookout Mountain cut the county off from its own State, help keep its population at less than five to the square mile. When highway construction-last month closed the road to Chattanooga, township Mayor I. H. Wheeler quickly asked the Southern Railway to stop its crack New York-New Orleans limited at Trenton to supplement the sole, inconveniently-timed local. The 10:25 a. m. northerly limited would land Trentonians half an hour later in Chattanooga, give them opportunities for business and shopping, while the southerly limited would carry them home again...
...ignored, Trenton's township council last week passed two ordinances that produced a swift reply from the railroad: 1) Trains passing through the mile of township were restricted to five miles per hour. 2) Blowing of whistles in the township was prohibited. Twenty-four hours later the Southern agreed that if the township would rescind its ordinance, the railroad would stop its trains on request...
Neither during the Civil War nor in Reconstruction times were the successes of the Union forces in Texas anything to brag about. In fact, with its post-Civil War collection of desperate Southern aristocrats, filibusterers and assorted bad men, their plots and generally seditious hell-raising, Texas looked like just the sort of a place for another rebellion to cut loose. Against this hot-blooded, nearly forgotten background, Texas-born U. S. Marine Major John W. Thomason Jr. (Fix Bayonets!, Jeb Stuart), grandson of Longstreet's Chief of Staff, spins the yarn of Gone to Texas, a pleasant, fast...