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...1870s P. T. Barnum picked up one Georgius Constantine, a Greek from Albania, not one quarter inch of whose body was clear of designs. Claiming that he had been covered from...
...avoided as too grim or assailed as too inhuman. To Novelist Davenport industry is a fact to be understood. Her approach to such understanding is through the human relationships of a steelmaking family. The Valley of Decision is also a chronicle of American family life. It begins in the 1870s, when young men were dazzling in straw boaters and yellow gloves, it ends four generations later with the bombs blasting Pearl Harbor...
Author Davenport has packed her book with descriptions of the unfeminine workings of Bessemers, open-hearth furnaces, skip-hoists, cast-houses. The men who pump lifeblood through the heart of Pittsburgh come alive in her pages-Irish steelworkers of the 1870s, Slovaks and "Hunkies" pouring in from the mills of Europe. Novelist Davenport's description of this hard, world-transforming valley of steel and furnaces is the most memorable part of her impressive work...
...Anna out in the revolution of 1855, Nuño left too. Tired out perhaps by a musician's lot in upsy-downsy Mexican politics, Nuño later settled down to the less turbulent life of Buffalo, N.Y. There he ran a small music academy in the 1870s and '80s. There, in 1906, he was buried...
...Cowes, during a ball aboard a British cruiser one August night in the 1870s, the future Lord Randolph Churchill met three American girls named Jerome and promptly told a friend that he intended to marry "the dark one." Next day he proposed and was accepted. To his ducal father's natural question young Churchill replied: "Mr. Jerome is a gentleman who is obliged to live in New York to look after his business. I do not know what...