Word: spang
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rhapsodized the aged but active Atlanta Constitution last week, not in a book review but right spang on the editorial page. The "spot" news was that the Waverly Press, Inc. (Baltimore) had published a re-edition of The Earth Upsets by Chase Salmon Osborn, LL.D.-a geology book for laymen...
...Spang Beauty" CORDELIA CHANTRELL - Meade Minnigerode-Putnam ($2). Among the quaint mysteries that survived the Civil War was that of The Messenger, or as she was later called, the Woman on Horseback, who rode back and forth through the Union lines apparently without the least difficulty and, according to rumor, often to the delight of gallant Union officers. This tale, a thoroughbred love story, purports to be that strange lady's biography...
...Style in which these lives and episodes are related and the settings of chivalric South Carolina worked up behind them do vast credit to their author. The dialogue, especially the ejaculations ("By cock and pye!", "Shut your clamtrap!", "A real, spang beauty!") are as racy and robustious as the points of honor are delicately sharpened, polished and thrust home. Author Minnigerode, master of informal biography (The Fabulous Forties, Lives and Times, Aaron Burr, Some American Ladies) has outdone himself in a piece of biographical fiction second to none this season...