cotton-gin

Bryant and Milam tied a 70-pound cotton-gin around his neck with barbed wire and dumped him in Tallahatchie River.

Dexter Rogers: Death in Mississippi: Lynching or Suicide? Dexter Rogers 2011

The dark farce bubbles over with deep Southern stereotypes, not least Karl Malden's racist cotton-gin owner, whose overripe sexpot teen bride Carroll Baker must remain a virgin until her 20th birthday.

Making Beautiful Music With Film Steve Dollar 2011

The eponymous heroine (the sultry Carroll Baker) is a virginal, childlike 19 year-old who's married to failing cotton-gin owner Archie Lee (Karl Malden).

Films I Love #18: Baby Doll (Elia Kazan, 1956) Ed Howard 2009

Baby Doll (1956) -- In the Deep South, glum-faced cotton-gin proprietor Archie (Karl Malden) is married to coy, dim-witted teenage nymph Baby Doll (Carroll Baker), who sleeps in a crib, sucks her thumb, and refuses to yield her virginity to her husband until her 20th birthday.

John Farr: The Centennial of Elia Kazan 2009

Baby Doll (1956) -- Glum cotton-gin proprietor Archie (Karl Malden) is married to dim-witted teenage nymph Baby Doll (Carroll Baker), who sleeps in a crib, sucks her thumb, and refuses to yield her virginity to her husband until her 20th birthday.

John Farr: Graphic Sex in Movies and Media: Is More Actually Less? 2008

If a woman can invent a mowing-machine, if a woman can invent a Jacquard loom, if a woman can invent a cotton-gin, if a woman can invent a trolley switch-as she did and made the trolleys possible; if a woman can invent, as Mr. Carnegie said, the great iron squeezers that laid the foundation of all the steel millions of the United States,

Acres of Diamonds 2008

Who invented the cotton-gin of the South that enriched our country so amazingly?

Acres of Diamonds 2008

It is quite true that the cotton-gin gives us calicoes for thirty sous a yard less than we ever paid before; but that machine and all other industrial perfections will not breathe the breath of life into a people, will not tell futurity of a civilization that once existed.

Modeste Mignon 2007

They were almost all Southerners, from textile and cannery and cotton-gin towns where young people seldom expected more than Saturday nights at the drive-in movie with others like themselves who would wear their high school football jackets years after their graduation.

Neon Rain James Lee Burke 1987

The little old cotton-gin house with a dirt floor with all these beautiful old

Oral History Interview with Eulalie Salley, September 15, 1973. Interview G-0054. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1973