Word: south
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...literature, the novel had been dropped on the floor by most literary critics as soon as it dropped in their laps. They thought its love story a bore, its history sectional, its length pretentious, its writing as drab as a bolt of butternut shoddy. The destruction of the South's civilization in the War between the States, told as the case history of two plantation families, the red-blooded O'Haras and the blue-blooded Wilkeses, had been better told before. The overlapping loves of Scarlett O'Hara for Ashley Wilkes, Rhett Butler for Scarlett...
...historical sequences, Northerners might not. There had been protests from daughters of G. A. R. veterans. But David Selznick was not worried. The advantage of film ing two great legends in one picture was that he had two great pictures - a sure fire Rebel-rouser for the South, a sure fire love story for the rest of the country...
...well known nationally as the Constitution, the Journal has a bigger name in Georgia. Last year, with 97,850 circulation, it had passed the Constitution (91,007), was Atlanta's biggest newspaper. It ranked third in the South, after the Memphis Commercial Appeal (124,010) and the New Orleans Times-Picayune (109,825), almost lived up to its slogan: "The Journal Covers Dixie Like the Dew." Atlanta newsmen used to wisecrack: "Yeah, it's all wet!" For the Journal had grown fat and stodgy; its editorial stand was typified by an annual piece called March Comes...
...only 75,178, and such local advertising crumbs as the Journal and the Constitution dropped from their table, rumor said the Georgian had lost around $200,000 a year. Ably edited, it was blighted by a succession of Hearst experts from the North who could not understand the South's temper. Sale of the Georgian leaves Hearst's depleted empire with 17 newspapers, only one (the San Antonio Light) in the South...
...dealing minutely with matters which once excited a town or county, at most, a State, these 500 pages might easily have been of an interest equally local. But they are, for those very reasons and some others, an almost incalculably rich and subtle portrait of the late igth Century South: as a State, as a people, as reflected in platoons of politicians, lobbyists, journalists, industrialists, preachers and educators; as pinned down in thousands upon thousands of facts of all sorts and sizes; as embodied in every action, still more in every inflection, of one man, Josephus Daniels...