Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stayed in his hiding place for several days without food and had withstood the danger of asphyxiation during the fumigation of the ship prior to its departure. Certainly here was a young man eager to embark on this great and dangerous expedition to the southern ice continent. Happily for him, Commander Byrd was so impressed by his courage and excellent stamina that he has given him permission to stay with the expedition. Two white boys who stowed away were put off ere the ship got out of the harbor because sailors heard them arguing. The black boy goes. The promoters...
While I was laid up with a fractured limb, my time was quite valueless, and shortly after having told my wife the story of the Northern salesman telling the Southern "cracker" that if he fed his hogs corn they would fatten up in one-half the time, to which the cracker had rejoined, "Aw, what's time to a hog," I happened to ask my wife "what time it was" she replied, "aw what's TIME...
Died. Sarah Barnwell Elliott, 80, southern suffragist & authoress, daughter of Bishop Stephen Elliott; in Sewanee, Tenn...
...Rails. Southern Pacific announced, last week, election of able Hale Holden, now president of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. to be Chairman of the Executive Committee of Southern Pacific. Railroader Holden has won bright fame as chief lieutenant of astute Arthur Curtiss James, railroad capitalist and yachtsman. In the shift of Southern Pacific executives, railroaders guessed that Mr. James was weaving an "integration" (merger is forbidden by law) of western roads with a mileage of 38,500. He owns vast amounts of stock in Great Northern; Northern Pacific; Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; Southern Pacific, Denver & Salt Lake; Western Pacific; Denver & Rio Grande...
...Driven to frenzy by the futility of outland interpretation I at last took up the work of their defense"-thus Mrs. Chapman on behalf of the Southern Mountaineers; and Outlander Mackaye is no doubt one of those who drove her to it. Certainly two interpretations could not differ more radically-Maristan Chapman's poignant novel of a reticent folk moving slowly to the rhythm of deep passions; and Percy Mackaye's lusty plays of primitive types with quick emotion and prompt voluble speech...