Word: thar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With all thar mycht and all thar mayne...
...HAAALLLOOO DOWN THAR...
...diuhlect, which at times gits purty sickenin'. And thuh way them guys clomp aroun' back uh thuh stage and forgit tuh turn thuh lights on an' off ain't inny too plasin' neither. Offhand, Ah cain't thank uv no wuss place to put on uh play than thet thar Kirkland Hayuse Joonyer Cummin Room. Sum uv thuh actin' ain't all thet all-fired good, is another thang...
Kensett, Arkansas, where Mills was raised, is said to have got its name when a Missouri Pacific agent, seeking advice about a railroad station site, was told: "You ken set it hyar or you ken set it thar." Mills's Second Arkansas District abounds in picturesque place names: Morning Sun is 75 miles from Evening Shade, and other places are named Joy. Romance, Rose Bud and Oil Trough. The son of a prosperous Kensett merchant and banker, Mills was sent to Harvard Law School, returned home to a job in his father's Kensett State Bank...
...turns on the millionaire with defiant, mocking scorn: "You make your pile, and with it on your backs you know you'll never again get airborne. But old Gorer, he's got rid of all that ballast. At least you can come and watch him fly-wheee! thar he goes-! Ah! How you love me, how you envy me and hate me and therefore trust me utterly, when you come here and reassure yourselves that I've got absolutely nothing out of a lifetime's single-minded dedication...