Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nassau students are journeying to Baltimore en masse to witness the contest. Special trains are running to the southern city this morning, and the interest among the student body, according to Princeton officials, is keener than ever before since the Navy-Princeton struggle has become a feature...
...from the mundane midst of American mediocrity. Now he can enjoy perfect English among virile types in a violent land. Then, when another agrarian movement robs Mexico of a delight in Shelley, and the bullets of the next candidate for the presidency penetrate the calm of Dr. Finlev's southern sanctum, he may prefer the powder of the northern classroom to the powder of his departed Utopia...
Concurrently with Spain's spectacular nibbling at the Riff from the north, the French forces under Marshal Petain made an advance, near Kifane on the southern war front, into virgin sloughs of Riffland never before occupied by Europeans. It was announced that last week's French offensive had gained all its objectives in record time. Then French officers discovered that their airmen, who had hastily made for them the only available maps, had mapped too optimistically. The French lines, when exactly plotted, proved to be a couple of miles short of the advance that had been claimed...
...Switzerland. To harassed negotiators, what could be a fairer haven? Locarno boasts but a single copper thread of telegraph wire to connect it with the outside world. Its atmosphere is not Swiss but Italian. Its climate has not the smart alpine tang of St. Moritz, but the balmy southern lambency of Italian Stresa, just across the lake...
...story behind the song is sometimes more romantic than the song itself. Who knows, for instance, that the two great Southern songs, "Dixie" and "Old Folks at Hame," were both written by Northerners, and that the author of the latter never saw the Swanee River, but found it in an atlas? Or that the author of the pretty "On the Banks of the Wabash," and other sentimental songs, was the brother of Theodore Dreiser, most realistic of modern novelists?-Or that "Sweet Adeline" started life as "Sweet Rosalee...