Word: cabin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rule 1. The candidate must have a solid American background-as humble as possible. As birthplace, a log cabin is best, a farm nearly as good, the combination practically irresistible. For parents, the watchword is poor but honest. In the family background, a horse thief is fatal, a millionaire nearly...
...actually born in a log cabin. His father, Lemuel Bricker, came from a hardy line of farmers who landed in the U.S. from the Palatinate in about the year 1830. His mother, Laura King, was of English-Scotch-Irish ancestry. Neighbors always referred to the Brickers and Kings as "hard-sense" people...
...From Cleveland came word of the big gest individual bond buyer of World War II: a ruddy, superquiet stock speculator named Harry William Hosford, who had cleaned up in both the bull market of the early '20s and the bear market of the early '30s. Once a cabin boy on Great Lakes steamers, Harry Hosford now unostentatiously bought in one whack $21,-000,000 worth of bonds. (Later he disclosed he had bought $11,000,000 in bonds last fall.) Cleveland newspapers had never before printed Harry Hosford's picture, had not mentioned his name...
...Cabin In The Sky (M.G.M.) is an all-star Negro musical with handsome, luscious-voiced Lena Home (TIME, Jan. 4), Ethel Waters, "Rochester," Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Hall Johnson's singers. Like many star-filled pictures, this one never really shows off its crowded heavens. The Negroes are apparently regarded less as artists (despite their very high potential of artistry) than as picturesque, Sambo-style entertainers...
...Volume I of this huge work centers around mighty Salathiel Al-bine, offspring of a blacksmith frontiersman. One day the child Salathiel left his parents' cabin on the wild Pennsylvania frontier, went down to the spring for water. "A brown arm with a copper band around it came out of the bushes and grasped him by the hair." Little Salathiel knew "the Injuns...