Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME'S desire to lose the good will of its Southern friends. TIME will, however, continue to employ the "Mr." in referring to men who lack other titles. Would Mr. Henderson himself care to be styled plain "Henderson...
...stormy morning the Shenandoah cruising across southern Ohio was suddenly seized by contending winds, and snapped in two like a straw between their fingers. By noon of that day airplanes carrying reporters and cameramen were speeding towards the scene of the wreck from points hundreds of miles away. There are no records of fatalities in those flights for news, but the hardships and difficulties to be overcome were great. The storm had not completely abated and the planes coming from the East had to cross the Alleghanies against the storm...
...Edison. Their good friend, Horticulturist Luther Burbank, last week virtually decided upon it-to sell his extensive experimental gardens at Santa Rosa, Calif., not to commercial interests (that course never entered his head), not to a great and eager Eastern university ("probably Harvard"), nor yet to the University of Southern California (though that institution made "elaborate overtures"), but surely to a university whose scientists would maintain and perpetuate his labors, and what more appropriate than to Leland Stanford Jr. University, where of recent years he, the world's plant wizard, has been a special lecturer on Evolution? That...
Died. Commander Zachary Lansdowne, 39, of the Shenandoah and 13 other officers and enlisted men. members of the airship's crew; in southern Ohio, killed in performance of duty. (See Page...
...Book of Charm. A drug clerk in a Southern village is desolated because his beloved is going to New York "to work and live". What can he do to keep her? He buys Charm, 412 pages for $8.27, reads the last chapter, on "Sex Appeal". A very adequate and pretty plot, this, for a musical comedy-it offers neat openings for such songs as That snug gle-up-and-hug-store, That hold me tight and- mug-store- That clove-kissing, licoricing, Drug-store...