Word: anna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon last week Johnny Kolesar, 12, suggested to his sister Anna, 10, that they make an expedition to the Hoffman brothers' cornfield. Anna had been there before and told of its glories. Barefoot along the dirt path they rolled their hoops. Passing the Klementovich shanty they stopped, invited Helen and Joe to come too. Some other children joined the party at the Hoffman field but left early. The Kolesars and Klementoviches stayed on; walking through the tall green corn, picking the ears. They were going to make a fire in the nearby woods and cook some "supper...
...Anna told the story later, this is what happened...
Johnny Kolesar died instantly, his back riddled with a load of No. 4 shot. Joe Klementovich was taken to a hospital, apparently dying. He was ten years old. Helen Klementovich's wounds were less dangerous. Police soon seized Farmer Craig Hoffman, identified by Anna Kolesar as "the man in brown pants." He denied shooting the children. In his house was found a ten-gauge shot-gun.* Police, fearing a lynching, dispersed muttering crowds, locked up Farmer Craig, charged him with murder, assault with intent to kill, atrocious assault and battery...
...Miss Anna W. Pennypacker, daughter of the late Samuel W. Pennypacker (onetime [1903-07] Governor of Pennsylvania), was arrested when police raided a meeting of the Workers' International Relief in Philadelphia. Released the next morning she said: "I went to the meeting because I was interested. I would not have believed it possible that this could have happened in Philadelphia, the cradle of liberty. My ancestors came to America over 200 years ago in the cause of freedom and I thought surely we had it in this good old Quaker City...
...stories for the Saturday Evening Post. This Gray-Bennett piece tells how a cabaret owner tries to get rid of his star dancer to replace her with his Chinese kitchen maid. The rivalry of the two girls winds up with a dagger-fight between them in the rooms of Anna May Wong. Like most English pictures, the drama is crudely shaped and conventionally directed. Anna May Wong does the best acting. Gilda Gray does not have much chance to dance. The best shots are incidental ones of sinister little streets in Limehouse and Soho...