Word: backwoodsman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suddenly delivered a sort of dying kick with a viciousness of which few people on this side of the Atlantic would have supposed him capable. His Armistice Day speech was in effect a denunciation of Europe and all its works from the standpoint of a 100% New England backwoodsman...
...Hoover's effort to obtain a political delegation from the Vice President's Blue Heaven let us be as indifferent as the backwoodsman who, when urged to run to his cabin where a panther was fighting his mother-in-law, retorted, 'Why should I care what happens to a panther?' [Laughter...
Engaged. James A. (Bud) Stillman Jr., 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Stillman; to Miss Lena Wilson, 18, daughter of a Scotch-Canadian backwoodsman. The bridegroom is the son of Banker James A. Stillman, whose marital complications have long figured in the headlines of the daily news. He met his fiancèe seven years ago at the Stillman camp in Canada, when she was doing odd jobs around the Stillman house; was attracted by her personality, innocence, beauty, cooking. In Canada said Mother Fifi Stillman warmly, while Miss Wilson sat silent, composed: "I am delighted with...
Zane Grey has a faint trace of Indian blood in his veins. He was born in Zanesville, Ohio. His father was a hunter, a farmer, a backwoodsman, who later became a doctor. Mr. Grey was educated at high school in his home town and at the University of Pennsylvania. For a time he was a professional baseball player. He gave it up for fishing, traveling, hunting. He began writing articles concerning his experiences, then turned to fiction with huge success...
...Great masterpieces of literature, coming upon the screen are securing for themselves a clientele which the printed word has never given them. In our own neighborhoods at a trifling expense any of us may be carried to polar or equatorial regions where only explorers heretofore have penetrated. The humblest backwoodsman whose vision might otherwise not have gone beyond his country now may watch the march of events in distant hemispheres pass by the door...