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Word: spoonbread (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gilden's 1965 bestseller, Hurry Sundown examines Georgia's effluent society after World War II. Its focus is the fortunes and follies of the Warren family, a sorry collection of scapegraces and scapegoats. Henry, played by England's Michael Caine with a surprisingly plausible spoonbread locution, is a draft-dodging mongrel. He aims to become a real estate mogul by grabbing passels of farm land from his soldier-cousin Rad (John Phillip Law) and his Negro neighbor, Reeve (Robert Hooks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Black + White = Grey | 3/31/1967 | See Source »

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