Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reading your description of him would infer without any doubt or hesitation that he is of French nationality whereas he was born not on the northern side of the Pyrenees but on the southern. I am aware of the fact that he speaks French and also, by the way, the Basque tongue for I have heard him conversing in those languages, but he does not come from the Basque region of southern France but from the corresponding section of northern Spain. In view of this there is no doubt as to his being Spanish and at the same time...
Died. Mrs, Joseph Pulitzer, 78, widow of the founder of the present New York World; at Deauville, France. She, once Miss Kate Davis of Georgetown, D. C., was a cousin of President Jefferson Davis of the Southern Confederacy. To the last her remarkable beauty mellowed rather than waned; and she was of the elect among U. S. hostesses in Europe possessing superb homes in Nice, Deauville. Three sons survive: Ralph and Herbert Pulitzer, respectively editor and an executive of the World and Publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the St. Louis Post-Despatch. Also has living 2 daughters, Edith, wife...
...Jones practicing at St. Andrew's, Scotland, to defend his British open championship. When Mr. Jones was reported as having ticked off a practice round in 68, Atlanta's mind was easier on this score. The other matter was the sale of the Atlanta Constitution, premier of Southern dailies. The ownership was announced as having passed from the Clark Howells, father & son, of Atlanta, to Colonel Luke Lea* and Rogers Caldwell, two Nashville, Tenn., gentlemen who published there the Tennesseean and who lately reached out to Memphis, to acquire the potent Commercial Appeal and Evening Journal. Having...
...Southern notables assembled last week at Fletcher, N. C., to sing a song and unveil a tablet to the song's author, Daniel Decatur Emmett, who, though he never took his stand or lived or died south of the Mason & Dixon line,* nevertheless composed both the words and music of "Dixie." Son of Ohio and buried there, Composer Emmett is the adopted son of all "Dixieland." Yet the scene last week in the cemetery of Calvary Episcopal Church at Fletcher ("outdoor Westminster Abbey of the South") was the first of their kind; the tablet, Composer Emmett's first...
...third-rate novelist, author of Revelry. It is the story of the Oil scandal, the Ohio Gang and the late President Harding, dragged out again and jumbled in with a lot of other sensational copy - the evangelic vaga ries of Aimee Semple McPherson, athletic professionalism at the University of Southern California, high class prostitution at Hollywood, California's "Reds," labor college? anti-syndicalism "outrages" - structurally built to reproduce life .-.s Mr. Sinclair has seen it lived in Southern California, and mentally f oundationed - or undermined - to show Capitalism as the causa of all that is horrid in the Golden...