Word: whiteoaks
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...pounds, and as soon as he opened his mouth he called for lashings of victuals. He talked brash and he acted uppety, but he got things done. He could lift 500 pounds of cotton at one lick and with one smack sink a nine-inch spike in a whiteoak tie. With women, too, his ways were winning, till he encountered his fatal Julie Anne. Her chronic faithlessness gave John Henry bad attacks of the all-overs, the down-yonders, even made him ponder the meaning of existence...