Word: towns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Farmers of the region viewed the shooting elementally. They said that in defense of his crops, especially prize corn like the Hoffmans', a man is justified in killing, especially when the thieves are "little Polacks" from shantytown. In the town, people cried for vengeance upon brutal countrymen who will shoot children, whether they are "snitam cinching" corn...
...annual meeting of the American Philatelic Society, largest of such U. S. bodies. They swapped stamps and stamp stories, spoke familiarly of "Luzons" (Philippine issue), "Bull's-eyes" (elliptically shaped Brazilian issue), compared albums. Seldom in the history of Minneapolis have there been so many pairs of tweezers in town. Stamp-men tweeze their treasures to avoid smudging, wear, tear; to hold them up to the light or pick them out of benzine baths in search of watermarks...
Newsman Spaeth: How long will you and your wife be in town...
...Tennessee hill girl, one must first have a "homeplace." The $50 a 'legger gave Fayre Jones to keep quiet about dynamiting the Howard house would have sufficed to let him marry Bess Howard, only the money proved counterfeit. What could Jones do but return it? Bess moved to town, began going to "play-parties." Fayre remonstrated but could do nothing until a man to whom Jones turned out to be a brother on the left side, died, leaving a "homeplace." Then Fayre moved in with Bess for his "wife-woman." She gladly planned, by bringing along "child-things...
...betrays some knowledge. Excerpt: "Just about the time they first began making red likker here in Kentucky, which was back in pioneer days, there was a craze on for French names among our people. As a result there's a Bourbon County and a Fayette County and a town named Paris and a town named Versailles . . . so maybe they named it [red likker] for Bourbon County...