Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME erred in not distinguishing between Northern and Southern West Virginia...
...Financiers marked the way he shouldered the Federal Reserve Act through the House. Farmers learned that he knows their business, being himself engaged in it, and that though he talks little he talks their kind of language: homely, directly, and red-head-hot with expletives like "dadbumit!" He is Southern. He is Dry. He could mightily help Candidate Smith...
Prohibition officials in southern Florida last week published a new recipe for getting drunk-a recipe that worried them because they could not see how to stop it. The recipe: into one coconut, bore a hole. Letting no milk leak out, insert two teaspoonfuls of brown sugar, followed by a cork. Refrain from touching the coconut for three weeks. Result: a tumblerful of cocowhiskey-pungent, potent, popular in southern Florida...
...tycoon Tan Kah-kee is a slender, old fashioned Chinaman some five feet two inches tall and about fifty years of age. He founded his rubber business in 1910 at Singapore, and now enjoys a. fabulous income which enables him to live luxuriously at Amoy, on the coast of Southern China. Uneducated in the western sense, and speaking only Chinese & Malayan, he has a passion for educational philanthropies and makes up each year the large deficit of a university which he founded at Amoy. He has several times visited Europe but professes an unalterable resolve not to set foot...
...nice choice of loyalties; he chose to respect the law rather than the sanctity of the confession which he had received and last week Mrs. Alma Petty Gatlin went on trial in the village of Wentworth for having killed her father. The courtroom was filled with reporters from Southern papers (Northern newssheets neglected the story) and with the inhabitants of the countryside who felt a strange unreality in the proceedings, as if they had suddenly stopped being real people and had become instead the actors in a play. The Rev. Thomas F. Pardue told his story to the court; after...