Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME defined the urban "connotation of the colloquialism" as follows: Persuader: Negro, and therefore Southern, colloquialism for a lethal weapon.LOSE...
...when one of the ablest Senators from the South was merely the other? The speaker was the head of the English Department of Vanderbilt University ?Dr. Edwin Mims by name. He is the author of a book* which raised a controversy. In his speech last week before the Southern Society in Manhattan, he reiterated his side of that controversy. It is now time, he said, to cease talking about Southern chivalry, hospitality, traditions. . . . The South has used the Civil War to explain too many things...
...These are facts that cannot be gotten around by hifalutin talk about the beauty of Southern women and the chivalry of Southern men," said the professor of English...
Next day, Senator George of Georgia did get into the papers because he, a Democrat, said in Washington that Southern textile industries and farmers want a protective tariff...
...ROMANTIC COMEDIANS?Ellen Glasgow?Doubleday, Page ($2.50). Judge Gamaliel Bland Honeywell?note his middle name? was jilted in the heat of his Southern-Victorian youth by queenly Amanda Lightfoot. On the rebound he married a dovelike Cordelia whose solicitude for his digestion during their 36 years together far surpassed her sublimation of his romantic tendencies?or, dare we say, his passions. They had no children. She modestly discouraged his tenderest husbanding. Hence it was not surprising that Gamaliel, at chivalric 65, caught himself thinking, as he laid his fifty-second weekly wreath on Cordelia's grave, of other women?...