Word: texasism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A topflight Texas historian thought it would take a lot more than that. Writing in the current Southwest Review, Walter Prescott Webb, longtime professor of history at the University of Texas declared flatly that the great principle of the Republican Party itself was archaic and had been archaic for years...
Former Vice President John Nance Garner had no time for dawdling on his 81st birthday in Uvalde, Texas. He spent the day shelling pecans gathered from his own grove, figured the work would net him around $1.50.
Texas, Li'l Darlin1 (book by John Whedon & Sam Moore; produced by Studio Productions, Inc. & Anthony Brady Farrell Productions) is suitably Texan in size and general good nature. But it is no less Texan in sprawl; it ranges over a lot. of flat country, strikes snags more often than...
Feather Beds. The ICC's 6-to-4 decision split the commission itself wide open. Though ex-Chairman J. Haden Alldredge voted for the raise, he warned that the railroads "certainly may be pricing themselves out of the market." He thought that the roads would be smarter to cut...
Director Nicholas (Knock on Any Door) Ray has succeeded in breathing some new life into his hackneyed plot. An escaped lifer (Farley Granger) and his girl (Cathy O'Donnell) hopelessly try to filter through a police dragnet. As their flight zigzags through central Texas, they get their first good...