Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hence he is not regarded as carrying on the tradition of Toombs, Stephens, Ben Hill and Gordon. Does that follow? Is one responsible for his name or his nickname? The reference to the 14th and 15th Amendments is as applicable to all the Congressmen and Senators of all southern states as to Mr. Upshaw. If Mr. Upshaw could find an opportunity for usefulness in spraying the boll weevil, might not this also be true of many others? And Dr. Butler, if encaged in such an occupation, would not be furnishing an example of discourtesy to the youth of the land...
...causes in the decrease in the number of farms are listed as: 1) ravages of the boll weevil, 2) migration northward of southern Negroes, 3) a series of dry seasons in part of the Northwest, 4) the consolidation of farms into larger units, 5) abandonment of farms because of adverse price conditions. The states showing chief decreases...
Ticket holders who park their cars in the private parking field or on the Brighton playground off Western Avenue, may enter through Gate 9, at the Southern corner of the field. Those parking their cars on the Metropolitan Parkway in Brighton may enter either through Gate 14 or Gate 19, the latter opposite the Newell Boat House...
...Angeles, a sprinter, one Keith Lloyd, cousin of Harold Lloyd, crouched for his start, glancing nervously at his opponent. A pistol roared. Away went Lloyd. After him sprang his rival, a little Chevrolet* automobile. Lloyd, "champion sprinter of the University of Southern California," was three strides ahead before the spitting, snorting car had got into second. At the finish, man and car were neck and hub, timed at 10.3 in a dead-heat finish...
...Council, thus combining the spiritual and legislative functions. Considerable interest was displayed over the first filling of this new and important post. There were several candidates. Bishop Gailor was the most prominent. The others included Bishop Brent of Western New York, Bishop Mathews of New Jersey, Bishop Reese of Southern Ohio, Bishop Perry of Rhode Island and Bishop James E. Freeman of Washington, D. C. There was special interest in the possibility of Bishop Freeman being chosen, because there has been talk of transferring the headquarters of the Church from Manhattan to Washington, where the great new Cathedral is situated...