Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most available man. He is highly qualified for the Presidency and the fact that he is not in sympathy with the 18th Amendment and is a Catholic should not disqualify him. It is my calm, deliberate judgment that Smith would not lose a single Southern State. ... I have no further po litical ambitions, but I expect to take an active part in the move ment to nominate Al Smith...
...Elihu Club. The secret of writing biographical history, he declares, is a knowledge of the card-index system of any substantial public library. For writing Cordelia Chantrell he evidently added to his historical method a study of fine prose and much thought on the fine temper of his Southern acqaintances...
Speed was no object for they had 2,060 miles to go; getting there, from Hampton Roads, Va., to Colon, Panama, was the main thing. None the less, the two big seaplanes vanished over the southern horizon seven minutes apart, droning for Cape Hatteras at a smart 80 knots or so. The destroyer Overton, the minesweeper Sandpiper and cruiser Saukee, strung down the Atlantic and stationed off Cuba, turned on their searchlights as dusk fell, tilted their beams at agreed angles into the drizzly night. The cruisers Raleigh and Cincinnati and the minesweeper Swan, stationed at intervals in the Caribbean...
Father and mother are about as bad as any vaudeville team you ever saw, and but for the simple homeliness of their lines, which convulse the crowd, they could be dispensed with entirely. Mother has a cross between a Southern drawl and a nasal twang which defles geographical location. Father is as fidgety as your Aunt Emma, and twice as much of an old woman...
...meddling in other people's business merely for the sake of sensationalism. Very wisely the World took no notice of such accusations other than to comment succinctly on the sensitiveness of the unjust. By their really frenzied editorials, which were not only foolish but also in bad taste, the southern papers have further incriminated their state and prejudiced the public. Meanwhile all commendations to the World which would appear to live besides the best columnist in the country an equally worthy editorial board...