Word: virginian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ohioan Presidents v. Virginian Sirs: A Virginian, in TIME, Dec. 15, p. 4, in a letter criticizing a statement of yours and titled by you "Virginia 8, Ohio 7" claims honors for his State as the Mother of Presidents. Virginia undoubtedly has a certain claim, but I think one much less valid than that of Ohio. Of Virginia's eight presidents, only seven were elected to that office; Tyler was Harrison's vice president. All seven of Ohio's presidents were elected. Furthermore two of Virginia's remaining seven were inaugurated before Ohio was admitted...
...Virginian, West Pointer, cavalry officer. Major-general of the Confederate army at thirty, and killed in battle before the fall "in the fourth year of the Republic," Jeb Stuart was, before any of these things, essentially a human, forceful personality. Fastidious in dress, possessing an excellent voice and sense of humor, and leaving poker and whiskey alone, Stuart was intoxicated with the beauty of Virginia, women and horses. Robert E. Lee said of him, "General Stuart was my ideal of a soldier." Which, according to the tenor of the book, was the one compliment Stuart would have desired...
...verses from a parody published in The Pilot House, a colyum of the Virginian Pilot and the Norfolk Landmark...
Japan taught both Yen and Chiang to fight. They were students at the Imperial Military College, Tokyo. Both came of prosperous people. Both got their political start in the revolution of 1911. Both are good men, Yen a Chinese Vermonter, Chiang a Chinese Virginian...
Diony Hall, daughter of Virginian pioneers, settles in what was still the wilderness of western Pennsylvania, marries her neighbor Berk Jarvis, goes with him the two-months' journey across the mountains into Kentuck, over the dim trail made by Explorer Daniel Boone. There they settle at Harrod's Fort, one of the three white settlements in the country. No one dared live outside the stockade: the Indians, hostile in their own right, were also encouraged by the British, who paid a bounty for Yankee prisoners, Yankee scalps, brought to Detroit. Once Diony and her mother-in-law wandered...