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...daughter of a South Carolina doctor. After leaving Spartanburg's Converse College, against her family's wishes she got a job as country school-teacher at Fort Motte, S. C. Two years later she married William George Peterkin, cotton planter, and became mistress of Lang Syne Plantation, about ten miles from Fort Motte. That was 30 years ago. She had a busy life keeping house, entertaining, riding, hunting, fishing, acting as "judge, jury, doctor and family adviser" to the hundreds of Negroes on the place. Not until she was over 40 did she begin to write seriously...
...queens goes onward past the Great War and up to the present time. At last with striving it takes an upward course once more. A gray haired couple whose sons are gone drink a toast to "dignity, greatness, and peace." Outside the New Year throngs sing "Auld Lang Syne" and there is a light on the cross above St. Paul...
...Author. Since Scarlet Sister Mary received the 1928 Pulitzer Prize, Authoress Julia Mood Peterkin has lived much the same local life as before with her cotton- planting husband on Lang Syne Plantation, Fort Motte, S. C. Once a winter she goes to New York, "to pleasure herself," not to be lionessed. At home the local colored folk know that "Miss Julia" has put them in books, do not much care. Negro intelligentsiacs agree with the whites ? that Authoress Peterkin writes accurately, vividly of the Gullah Negroes. Equally vivid, Bright Skin gives a broader picture of Gullah life than Scarlet...
...from voting on the bill at all. The bill came up. Eight Liberals led by Sir John Simon jumped the Lloyd George hedge and voted with the Conservatives, but Labor won, 277 to 250. Laborites ran wild, shook the rafters of the staid House of Commons with "Auld Lang Syne." Bitterly spoke Liberal Sir John Simon...
...through three wards of the Royal Alexandra Infirmary, a temporary morgue, trying to identify their children, members of the Town Council met privately, voted $5,000 for a public funeral, started an investigation. At midnight a group of Paisley citizens gathered in the main square, softly sang "Auld Lang Syne...