Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...career of perpetual paradoxes. He was stoutly opposed to Secession. He freed his own slaves years before the Civil War. Yet he became the outstanding champion of the causes of Secession and Slavery. He was a mild-mannered Southern gentleman, so kind-hearted that he would stoop within battle-fire to restore a fledgling sparrow to its nest. But he achieved international fame in the profession of killing men. He attacked as he retreated, he retreated as he attacked. His strategy made of his opponents' successes Pyrrhic victories, brought him triumph by losing in the art which aims only...
...said that President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey, called the Ghazi-"The Victorious"-but now somewhat debilitated by incessant, nightly champagne tippling, would confer with Dr. Voronoff in the inconspicuous city of Adana, some 30 miles inland from the southern coast of Turkey. The chief question of vital interest was whether there would also be present one of the lively young chimpanzees which are bred especially for Dr. Voronoff's convenience in French West Africa by the Pasteur Institute. With thin sharp knives Surgeon Voronoff can slice from a chimpanzee glands which he then swiftly inserts in a human...
...parties along with him aboard the private yachts of rich friends when he goes a-faring. Last week a flotilla of four vessels bore him company along the Florida edge of the broad Atlantic from Miami southward to the Florida keys. There, while his hosts sipped ices under the southern sun, Mr. Beebe dropped, under the shield of a glass-windowed helmet, to see what he could see swimming at the bottom of the shallow...
...opposite face of the earth, while these men gained their ways, George Eastman, head of the Eastman Kodak Co., was pursuing his second leisurely hunt* with camera and gun through the high lands of Uganda and southern Sudan. The scientific importance of his trip lay chiefly in the cinema films which, with the aid of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson,† he took of African mammals at their private affairs. Of lesser importance were the rare white rhinoceros and the more common water buck which he killed so that he might give them to the Natural History Museum at Rochester...
COQUETTE-A frail beauty in a small southern town disobeys her father, falls in love, commits suicide. Helen Hayes is the girl (TIME...