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Caldwell's Hog Wallow Sirs: . . . Erskine Caldwell is seizing upon an isolated instance or two of injustice to tenant farmers by Jefferson County landowners to paint the county as a sink of iniquity. As a damyankee of many generations standing, I cannot be accused of rushing to the defense of my native State. But by profession trained to accurate observation and impartial reporting, and speaking from six years' intimate familiarity with Jefferson County, I can say that a more contemptible libel has never been uttered about any community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 25, 1935 | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

...superb talent Caldwell has. Give him a single stink and he can create a magnificent hog wallow, a singularly appropriate gift for those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 25, 1935 | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

...economic theories of the New Deal, but the ancient game of trading votes is something near & dear to their hearts. Last week the unofficial but altogether real business of choosing a new Speaker of the House to succeed the late Henry T. Rainey gave them a chance fairly to wallow in their favorite pastime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Speakership Settled | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

...recent "Crime," reference was made to "plump maidens, attired in healthy bloomers, who shriek with delight as they force their Lotharios to wallow in the mud"; these being the girls from Winsor. The writer, adding insult to injury, associated these same girls with some whom a "gentleman" could not identify as male or female. And later in this same article, the author mentions "the menace of Winsor." We think these remarks in very bad taste, especially when one considers the fact that the very girls whom the unknown author accuses of being unmaidenly are the same with whom he does...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 11/20/1934 | See Source »

...rapidly getting bored with those enthusiastic Freshmen who find a tasty repast for the athletic field in the young ladies from Miss Winsor's. Our Romeoetical complexes never have been satisfied by plump maidens, attired in healthy bloomers, who shriek with delight as they force their Lotharios to wallow in the mud. It is too reminiscent of the gentleman who told us the other day that he was fond of one girl when he was unable to tell whether she was male or female...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

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