Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opposition rally has been made by the fundamentalists, who, to counter the lubrications of successful authors, have been enlisting successful business men. Thus we read of the manager of a drygoods store asserting that If she Bible is not true we are done for!; and the manager of the southern railway affirms his belief in Fundamentalism in words that might have been used by the late William J. Bryan...
...Then there is the American Negro probably the most slang productive race in the world. It was the Southern darky who first spoke of his tired and aching feet as 'dogs'. This word has gone through a hundred stages of development and its ramifications and embellishments are to be found in the daily conversation of many people today. Slang is the effort to economize in the use of words--to make a single one do the work of several sentences--as well as to be funny...
...Benediktbeurer Weihmachts spiel," though of German origin, was written in Latin about 1200 A.D. and was discovered in a thirteenth century manuscript in the monastery of Benediktbeurer in southern Germany. In several respects it is unique. It has a long introduction, the Prophets' Play; Joseph has no lines to speak and Mary only one or two; the Devil appears to the shepherds in the field; and there is a long epilogue recounting events in Egypt...
...similar southern trip, though not so extensive, was made last year, and took in Hartford, New York, Richmond, Stanton, Hot Springs and Sulphur Springs. Another successful trip is expected this year...
...original manuscript was found in the Monastery Benediktbeuren in southern Germany, and has been pronounced as the best of the early German miracle plays, and one of the few which embody, a true Christmas theme. The play was probably written by wandering medieval scholars about the year...