Word: southerning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...remember this Southern play by Lula Vollmer, which told so sternly and so well certain truths about the mountain people. In the picture it still has its tale to tell, plus a love story to thin it out to seven reels. The story is one of war; how feud war faded before the greater war which took the mountaineers to Germany, which they regarded as just beyond Asheville. The dominant figure is the old mountain mother who, between puffs at her corncob pipe, attains in her ignorance to some fundamental facts in life. Lucille La Verne, as in the play...
...Coolidge thought the situation serious enough to give his own interpretation of the causes which forced the reduction in wages. He listed: 1) overexpansion of the woolen industry during the War, so that now, with Southern mills producing the coarser fabrics, and the finer ones being imported from abroad, the New England mills are in difficulties; 2) a change in fashions that made worsteds unpopular during the past season...
Sued for Divorce. Howard Jones, head football coach at the University of Southern California, brother to T. A. D. Jones, head football coach at Yale, by Mrs. Leah Bissell Jones; in Denver...
...curls and rich juices as the philosophical fruits of his rumination, Humorist Cobb drawls on and on about intoxicants, ancestors, being homely, the zoo, national holidays, Christmas presents "and so forth." Very different from "chewing the rag." He is the delight of a vast audience that relishes: an elaborate Southern simile- (false teeth that clattered) "like a fox-trotting horse with a loose shoe crossing a covered bridge;" an unexpected wise-crack-"King George the Fifth and Queen Mary the Four Fifths;" a sensible suggestion-floor lights, clothes ockers, tractable windows, longer blankets for Pullman cars, wash suits for city...
...Frederick Essary is Washington correspondent of The Baltimore Sun. Recently, he traveled south to Asheville, N. C, where the Southern Newspaper Publisher's Association was holding its annual convention. He went a knight from the Faery Queen to cleave off the ghastly head of rumor and of scandal. Said...