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Last month 100 jobless miners from the barren little coal settlement of Pity-Me, Ohio, marched seven miles to Pomeroy. There in Common Pleas Court they declared their women and children were naked and starving. The Red Cross, they said, had refused to give them any relief. They asked legal permission to go out upon the Pomeroy streets and beg for pennies. This request was denied...
With the general low level of college salaries, some special grants naturally have to be made for advanced studies. Professors can often make fairly heavy profits from textbook writing, but that task is a barren one so far as either intellectual stimulus or increased knowledge are concerned. Because they allow members of the Faculty to devote themselves to work which gives them some inspiration and which results in some contribution to learning, the Milton and Clark Funds are invaluable to the University...
Once a year New Yorkers, who must live and work in one of the most barren cities on the continent, may go to Grand Central Palace to see such gardens and such flowers as never grew in the open air. Over 25,000 flower-lovers went there the opening day. The gardens and flowers were provided not only by garden clubs and nurserymen but by some of the greatest names in U. S. finance: John Pierpont Morgan, Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell, George Fisher Baker, Mrs. Payne Whitney, Hiram Edward Manville, Otto Hermann Kahn...
...reality be said to tend toward the literary only, so can the painstaking dialogue become a trifle clotting. However, without caviling over critical straws, there is much in this book for those who believe that realism does not necessarily mean a lack of imagination, that humanity is only as barren as those who observe it. For these, and for any who like a good story, there is beauty and reality in "Three Steeples," and perhaps also a part answer to "Main Street" and the often shallow photography of Sinclair Lewis...
...Gentry III, his grandson, went to war in 1861 with the 19th Illinois, was wounded, got to be a sergeant, saw his beloved brother killed. After the war he went back to the Gentry farm. Jonathan V, a farmer like his forbears, married a beautiful wife, but she was barren. When his lawyer brother came to visit, she fell in love; Jonathan would not see. When his brother came again, Laura tried to make him run away with her; he refused, and she killed herself by jumping out of his speeding car. Thus the Gentry line ended...