Word: monticello
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Dale's father settled in Monticello, Miss, before the Civil War, edited a newspaper, taught Joe how to set type. At 17 Joe started the Lawrence County Press. That was in 1888, when few of Lawrence County's present citizens had been born. Sometimes the crops were good, and Joe Dale prospered. Sometimes they were not so good, and Editor Dale did not press his hungry subscribers. He had been in business seven years when his plant burned. Joe started over. Then he got married, raised three sons (one is a country editor in northern Mississippi), three daughters...
Jefferson is one of the two U. S. Presidents (the other: Lincoln) who did not claim membership in any church. But he spent his spare evenings at the White House and Monticello with paste pot and shears, clipping and collating Greek, Latin, French and English Bibles in parallel columns. Fear of being "exposed to the malignant perversions of those who make every word from me a text for new misrepresentations and calumnies" kept him from ever publishing it. The Government later bought the manuscript from his family, placed it in the Smithsonian, where it still remains...
...Lawrence Wood Robert Jr. was a Monticello, Ga. boy who studied at Georgia Tech, became a construction engineer. Always known as "Chip" Robert (because his father was "Wood" Robert), he set up his own firm in 1917, devoted himself to the task of industrializing the South. In the 23 years since then, Robert & Co. has done over $500,000,000 worth of business, designing textile mills and schools, putting up public buildings...
...even though many New England families, in fright at his election as President, hid away their Bibles. To Jefferson reason was the greatest gift of God, the one to be cherished above all others. And still he had a genius--perhaps he drew it from the very air of Monticello--which made him truly representative of the whole diversified empire of Dixie...
...hearts of the Adamses, Girards, and Astors. Vag would like to have followed him around his house and farm, to have heard him talk about his thoroughbred horses, his violin, and his scientifically rotated crops. As the next best thing, Vag is determined to make another visit to Monticello this spring. In the meantime, he is going to drop in on Professor Buck's lecture and question period on Thomas Jefferson in the "History of the South" at 12 o'clock this morning in Harvard...