Word: delta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Editor Carter, of the Greenville Delta Democrat-Times, was brought into the act by the Providence Journal. It had carried the Sprigle series (along with 13 other Northern papers), and felt that its readers had a right to hear from the defense. Carter wrote a six-part series called "Jim Crow's Other Side," which was offered last week to papers which syndicated Sprigle...
...kinds of men, those you played with and those you might marry") described in the elegant, slightly elegiac prose of F. Scott Fitzgerald; the frat boys going through their rituals as if life itself depended on them ("every night a freshman stood on the roof of the Nu Delta house and announced the time every 15 seconds"); the blonde whom gentlemen preferred and who was thrilled to see in Paris "the historical spot where Mr. Coty makes all the perfume...
...because Miss Mowrey thinks it a good teacher's duty to belong to education groups, she is a director of her local teachers' association, vice president of the West Virginia N.E.A., an active member of the American Association of University Women and of Delta Kappa Gamma, an education society. She teaches Sunday-school classes and is regularly called upon to help in Clarksburg's Red Cross and Community Chest drives...
...Blue-Papered Bedroom. Last week it was again time for gypsydom's traditional pilgrimage to Les-Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, a small fishing village in the wild Rhone delta, to pay homage to their patron Saint Sarah.t Once Romanies from all over the world came; last week, only the French gypsies were there. The others were unable to move across the world's new frontiers and new orders...
This book is like an evening of mellow talk over bourbon and water. Its author, who once wrote a bestseller about the Sears-Roebuck catalogue, was born and raised in the Mississippi Delta country he writes about. Instead of a serious study of the cotton economy and the problem of race relations, he has reported loquaciously, and with the leisurely humor of an old-school Mississippian, on the moods and customs of Delta society...