Word: bunyan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bunyan," Professor Greenough, Sever...
...with This Side of Jordan, an unpleasantly realistic, unpleasantly tragic novel of Negro life. Now he is back again on the side of the angels with a rambling, episodic legend of the big black buck John Henry, who is to the Cotton Belt what Paul Bunyan is to the North Woods...
Religion has led the U. S. Negro, as it led John Bunyan, to regard life as a pilgrimage through many pitfalls for gay rewards. This is the import of almost every Negro spiritual; it is the import of a morality play called Heaven Bound which has made its appearance in Atlanta, performed by the choir of Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. First wide public to hear about Heaven Bound was the theatrical world. Theatre Guild Magazine for August called it "the first great American folk drama" and said: "It should and probably will make Georgia an American Oberammergau." Recalling...
...Cooper & Co., Manhattan department store. In 1914 he returned to Chicago, formed Consumers Co. (coal, ice, building materials). Later Consumers bought Hydrox Ice Cream Co. In 1917 Thomas McInnerney bought Hydrox away from Consumers and planned a dairy products combination on a scale that would have pleased even Paul Bunyan.* Contrary to downtown Manhattan legend, President McInnerney does not sit at his desk munching Kraft-Phenix cheese all day and quaffing Sheffield milk. The quaffing and munching at directors' meetings are only a stunt. Mr. McInnerney's office is a luxurious, paneled room containing much Florentine leather. Next...
...sure this was a sequoia tree and not a sprout from Paul Bunyan's famous cornstalk whose top, when it was cut, whistled through the air for six weeks before it hit the ground...