Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anticipated Crimson victories on the Southern trip during the spring holidays Kept Indorse by the wintry March weather and forced to practice at night in dusty Briggs Cage, the squad was raw and unorganized when it hit the Dixie trail on April 1. The Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Navy tens which faced the Crimson had been outdoors for over month; thus it was no surprise when they gathered a total of 33 points as against 0 for the players from Cambridge. The series, however, gave the squad some much-needed outdoor contact work, and, when they began outdoor workouts...
Believing the story too good to keep, Mr. Sherman told it to the Southern Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges, meeting in Memphis, and to the House Dies Committee. By last week, the affair had stirred up not only Tampa and Florida but the whole South, for Mr. Sherman was quoted as saying that Baron von Spiegel had boasted there were plenty of other universities (presumably in his jurisdiction-eight Southern States) who were not too proud to take German gold...
...courtesy," and that he might have suggested that the German Government would be willing to endow a German language scholarship. He said he knew of no Nazi-subsidized professorship in the U. S. but that he had sent German books as prizes to students of German in some 25 Southern universities. Tampa's President Sherman, standing by his story, snorted: "Why would I wish to insult him? He admits that I did insult him and I admit that I insulted him all I was able...
...months ago W. T. Couch, regional director of the Federal Writers' Project, sent his best writers out to get the life stories of a typical cross section of Southern sharecroppers, landlords, millworkers and owners, relief workers, storekeepers, etc. No editorializing was allowed; stories were to be told mainly in the first person; the results were to be judged on "accuracy, human interest, social importance, literary excellence." Result: something new in sociological writing, a 421-page volume of 35 such true stories to be published May 20. Already exciting advance comment (Charles Beard: "As literature more powerful than anything...
...Stand Up and a Fight," co-starring Robert Taylor and Wallace Beery, is another fairly successful effort to make a man out of the ladies' delight. From a southern plantation where Taylor, as Blake Cantrell, an idly rich orphan, is presiding over a hunt meet, the scene shifts rapidly to the roisterous frontier rivalry of a stage line, run by Wallace Beery, and the nascent Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Forced to sell his plantation, Taylor becomes involved in the general struggle for a livelihood. He sprouts a beard, learns to use a six-shooter to drive nails with, and succeeds...