Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japan's objectives in bombing Canton are: 1) destruction of the city's military defenses and crushing the southern terminus of the Hankow-Canton railway, China's main pipeline for supplies now pouring in through Britain's Crown Colony of Hong Kong. 90 miles south of Canton at the mouth of the Pearl River; 2) the demoralization of the civilian population. By the end of last week the first had not been achieved-Chinese anti-aircraft batteries still blazed away at the bombers, stores of munitions were still intact, and the vital railway was still open...
...ballads of the Southern mountain folk have been kept in cold storage since the 17th Century. The hillbillies have inherited not only ballads, but also the tradition of creating them. For three years, Dr. Edwin Capers Kirkland, professor of English at the University of Tennessee, has, like Author Thomas, chased folk songs deep into the Southern Appalachians. Dr. Kirkland has found that twangy-voiced mountain singers and guitar pickers are making ballads from yesterday's newspaper headlines...
...most aggressive U. S. provincial patriots have been the Southern regionalists (Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon, et al.). But in his five Maine-grounded historical novels (Arundel, The Lively Lady, Captain Caution, Rabble in Arms, Northwest Passage) Kenneth Roberts has gradually overtaken them. In Trending Into Maine he definitely shows the Southerners his heels...
...knock Maine off his shoulder. Says Roberts: Maine ducks and partridges fly faster. Maine fish fight harder. Maine food tastes better than anywhere else in the world. But the most ingenious evidence concerns the Maine air, which Author Roberts credits with bringing 75 writers into his neighborhood of southern Maine. His theory is that they go there and write furiously and successfully because the air contains iodine pounded out of the seaweed by the ocean surf. For himself, unfortunately, the iodine is wasted, since he can write only in Italy, ''where I own nothing, don't want...
Following these is a pure folktale, the nearest thing to a Southern Grimm's tale...