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  • n  cornbread often made without milk or eggs and baked or fried (southern)

  • Not the Look Homeward, Angel Tom Wolfe, not by fifty gallons of corn pone, but a well-mannered young fellow from Richmond, with long brown hair floating down both sides of a pale .
  • The pone is the lowest form of humor.
  • Its lazy calculation telegraphs each plot turn and underlines emotions with corn-pone music.
News & Articles

  • Parkland Community Library Files for Injunction
    A new library that has been anticipated by Parkland community members for over ten years was threatened to be pushed back even further after a school board shared it's plans to lower a library tax rate. Parkland School District (PSD) revealed it's plans to reduce a 1998 voter-approved library tax rate of 0.3 mills to 0.1 mills. Reducing this tax rate would continue to post-pone the beginning of ...
    June 15, 2013 - WFMZ Eastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey
Quotes

  • Mamata Banerjee in Economic Times
    We will try to pre-pone the assembly elections. After all, this vote is an expression of no-confidence in the state government,Banerjee told newspersons at her residence here.
  • Mark Twain in New York Times
    You tell me whar a man gits his corn pone,Twain recalled a childhood friend telling him, "en I'll tell you what his 'pinions is."
  • Lenny Kravitz in Earthtimes
    I'm all about being positive from Day One,Kravitz said. "It's funny, because if you are really negative, they don't say anything. But when you are positive, it's like, 'What is this hippie, corn pone, bull ......' People don't get it at...

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