The self-consciousness of Pine Ridge manifests itself at the village's edge in such signs as "Drive Keerful," "Don't Hit Our Young... 'uns," and "You-all Hurry Back"Mlocutions which nearly all Arkansas hill people use daily but would never dream of putting in print.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I see two dingy little rooms with "FOR LADIES" swinging over one and "FOR COLORED PEOPLE" over the other; while wondering under wh...ich head I come, I notice a little way off the only hotel proprietor of the place whittling a pine stick as he sits with one leg thrown across an empty goods box; and as my eye falls on a sample room next door which seems to be driving the only wide-awake and popular business of the commonwealth, I cannot help ejaculating under my breath, "What a field for the missionary woman."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The broken ridge of the hills was the line of a lover's shoulder,... his arm-turn, the path to the hills, the sudden leap and swift thunder of mountain boulders, his laugh.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
SWEENEY: I'll carry you off To a cannibal isle.... DORIS: You'll be the cannibal! SWEENEY: You'll be the missionary! I'll gobble you up. I'll be the cannibal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The soul is no traveler; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him from his house..., or into foreign lands, he is at home still and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance that he goes, the missionary of wisdom and virtue, and visits cities and men like a sovereign and not like an interloper or a valet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I was in grade school and we had to write papers about what we wanted to be when we grew up, I wanted to be a social worker o...r a missionary or a teacher. Then I got involved with tennis, and everything was just me, me, me. I was totally selfish and thought about myself and nobody else, because if you let up for one minute, someone was going to come along and beat you. I really wouldn't let anyone or any slice of happiness enter.... I didn't like the characteristics that it took to become a champion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mead had studied for the ministry, but had lost his faith and took great delight in blasphemy. Capt. Charles H. Frady, pioneer mis...sionary, held a meeting here and brought Mead back into the fold. He then became so devout that, one Sunday, when he happened upon a swimming party, he shot at the people in the river, and threatened to kill anyone he again caught desecrating the Sabbath.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The technologist was the final guise of the white missionary, industrialization the last gospel of a dying race and living standar...ds a substitute for a purpose in living.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »