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The Southern belle was bred to conform to a subspecies of the nineteenth-century " lady "... For Scarlett, the ideal is embodied in her adored mother, the saintly Ellen, whose back is never seen to rest against the back of any chair on which she sits, whose broken spirit everywhere is mistaken for righteous calm ...
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His mother Martha " Mittie " Bulloch was a Southern belle from a slave-owning family in Roswell, Georgia, and she maintained Confederate sympathies.
His mother, Edwina, was an archetype of the ‘ Southern belle ’, whose social aspirations tilted toward snobbery and whose behavior could be neurotic and hysterical.
The film was a success, and Davis's performance as a spoiled Southern belle earned her a second Academy Award, which led to speculation in the press that she would be chosen to play a similar character, Scarlett O ' Hara, in Gone with the Wind.
This saucy Southern belle was as tall as a real woman, in contrast to Bergen's other sit-on-the-knee sized characters.
Bartlow is not interested, but his shallow Southern belle wife, Rosemary ( Gloria Grahame ) is, so he agrees to do it for her sake.
April Kane: A Southern belle who wins Terry's heart.
It tells the story of a small-town Midwestern teacher and poet named John Shawnessy, who, in his younger days before his service as a Union soldier in the Civil War, met and married a beautiful Southern belle ; however, her emotional instability leads to the destruction of their marriage.
* Rue McClanahan as Blanche Devereaux, a Southern belle, employed at an art museum.
She is a Southern belle dressed in a 1930s racing costume.
Born in 1864 to a clergyman and his dutiful wife, Virginia grows up as a Southern belle in the town of Dinwiddie, Virginia.
The search for an actress to play Scarlett in the film version of the novel famously drew the biggest names in the history of cinema, such as Bette Davis ( whose casting as a Southern belle in Jezebel in 1938 took her out of contention ), and Katharine Hepburn, who went so far as demanding an appointment with producer David O. Selznick and saying, " I am Scarlett O ' Hara!
* The Firesign Theater's Everything You Know Is Wrong includes a recording of a stage play about how the South won the Civil War, with repartee between a Southern belle and her former slave Uncle Tom, who introduces himself as Uncle Field Marshall Thomas Legree Quadroon.
His mother, Lois ( née Overstreet ), was a war widow who met Macy's father after her first husband died in 1943 ; Macy has described her as a " Southern belle ".
; Amanda Wingfield: A faded Southern belle abandoned by her husband who is trying to raise her two children under harsh financial conditions.
Although a survivor and a pragmatist, Amanda yearns for the illusions and comforts she remembers from her days as a fêted Southern belle.
* Southern belle, a refined woman from the southern United States
After Bonet's departure in the first season, the remainder of the series primarily focused more on all-black college and on Southern belle Whitley Gilbert ( Jasmine Guy ) and mathematics whiz Dwayne Wayne ( Kadeem Hardison ).
The protagonist is Laura Bow ( a pun on Clara Bow ), a Southern belle who has just graduated from Tulane University and moved to New York City, where she has landed a job at a prestigious newspaper.
She played a wealthy Southern belle who has a forbidden affair with Ryan Gosling's poor laborer.
While serving in the Treasury Department in Washington, D. C. as Clerk of the Second Auditor, English met the Southern belle Emma " Mardy " Jackson, whom he married in November 1847.
The Gazebo and a Southern belle of Cypress Gardens
* Southern belle
* Ashley Dupree-The Southern belle / Princess.
Afterwards, the aliens return everything ( except Foxy Loxy, whose brain gets scrambled and she becomes a Southern belle and as a result, Runt falls for her ) to normal, and everyone is grateful for Chicken Little's efforts to save the town.
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All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.
The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.
Many believe -- and understandably -- that the great difference between the Constitution of the Southern Confederacy and the Federal Constitution was that the former recognized the right of each state to secede.
But though the Southern States, when drafting a constitution to unite themselves, narrowed the difference to this fine point by omitting to assert the right to secede, the fact remained that by seceding from the Union they had already acted on the concept that it was composed primarily of sovereign states.
Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??
Being somewhat delicate in health, at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe, for which he at once developed a passion, so that he spent nearly all of the following ten years abroad, at first in Italy, then in Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Palestine.
His father, George A. Mercer, was descended from an honored Southern family that could trace its ancestry back to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1747.
A recent editorial discussing a labor-management agreement reached between the Southern Pacific Co. and the Order of Railroad Telegraphers has been criticized on the grounds that it was not based on complete information.
The situation with regard to the Southern Pacific was therefore a special one and not necessarily applicable to other situations in other industries.
This, of course, was the sort of thing that used to take place in Southern cities -- putting white houses of prostitution with colored girls in colored neighborhoods and carrying them on openly.
The description of the car was immediately broadcast throughout Southern Maryland on police radio.
A wide-ranging, bipartisan force -- from Minnesota's Democratic Hubert Humphrey to Massachusetts' Republican Leverett Saltonstall -- was drawn up against a solid phalanx of Southern Democrats, who have traditionally used the filibuster to stop civil rights bills.
On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party.
The passage of the Homestead Act and the Pacific Railway Acts was made possible by the absence of Southern congressmen and senators who had opposed the measures in the 1850s.
After four years of warfare, mostly within the Southern states, the Confederacy surrendered and slavery was abolished everywhere in the nation.
The Republican Party was determined to prevent any spread of slavery, and many Southern leaders had threatened secession if the Republican candidate, Lincoln, won the 1860 election.
During this same period, slave-holding border states had more free African-Americans and European immigrants than the lower South, which increased Southern fears that slavery was threatened with rapid extinction in this area.
A social movement that was individualist, egalitarian and perfectionist grew to a political democratic majority attacking slavery, and slavery ’ s defense in the Southern pre-industrial traditional society brought the two sides to war.
Buddhism arrived in China around the 1st century AD, but it was not until the Northern and Southern, Sui and Tang Dynasties that it gained considerable influence and acknowledgement.
Southern Iraq during Akkadian period seems to have been approaching its modern rainfall level of less than per year, with the result that agriculture was totally dependent upon irrigation.
This did not, however, lead to a demotion, as Alexios was needed to counter the expected invasion of the Normans of Southern Italy, led by Robert Guiscard.
Johnson was the only Southern senator who did not resign his seat during the Civil War ; he became the most prominent War Democrat from the South and supported Lincoln's military policies.
The decisive battle was the election of 1866, in which the Southern states were not allowed to vote.
Thus the possibility of re-incorporating Portugal ( up to then Southern Galicia ) into a Kingdom of Portugal and Galicia as before was eliminated and Afonso became sole ruler ( Duke of Portugal ) after demands for independence from the county's church and nobles.
Several recent authors have theorised that the Ark was taken from Jerusalem to the village of Rennes-le-Château in Southern France.
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