Word: bunks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...picture of himself. Appanoose is still at heart the hobo team-hand that he labored to become as a brawny lad of 15 in the hard-rock camps of Montana, Idaho and California, only instead of drawling his story aloud as he learned to do in tumbled bunk-shacks, glaring bars and chilly boxcars, he now puts it on paper with a few droll flourishes (for which he may be indebted to Mr. Kipling's Just So Stories) and a care not to be coarse...
...port, Dewey Kile: "I came off at 8 o'clock. At 8:30 I went to my bunk. At 10:30 I was awakened by a crash. Some of the cork from the lining of the inside of the submarine hit me in the face...
...water spurting into the compartment from the battery room duct. I jumped out of the bunk and ran to the door and tried to shut it, but couldn't on account of the pressure of the water rushing in. The water swept me back through the compartment to the control room. I tried to close the doors of the control room, but the pressure of the water was once more too great...
Within the past month the Play Jury has again been summoned. Its delegates inspected two revues, The Bunk of 1926 and The Great Temptations; and two plays, Sex and The Shanghai Gesture. The plays passed. Parts of Temptations were frowned upon and eliminated by the management. Bunk was ordered closed, obtained an injunction and, at this writing, is still playing, though considerably disinfected...
...that the second thought of several jurors has recommended a policy of moderation, the citizen censorship will no doubt operate with an increased sense of proportion. "The frauds of the future may be permitted a tolerant existence because "The Bunk of 1926" has become a Freudian martyr...