Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which few U. S. novelists have touched, Bitterly resenting the neglect of his achievements by serious U. S. critics, Upton Sinclair usually counters by mentioning the wide circulation of his books abroad. The Jungle is the most widely-read U. S. novel since Uncle Tom's Cabin. Oil has been translated into 30 languages, including Esperanto. A bibliography published in 1930 listed 525 translations of Sinclair's works in 34 nations, and 200 titles have been added since then. A library census in Sweden established Sinclair as the most popular author in that country, and a newspaper vote...
...love with a penniless college boy, Pete (Gene Raymond), whom she pays to masquerade as an objectionable French count. Sole variation on this time-honored theme is that Pete is also a crooner seeking a job in radio. This gives him opportunity to sing several pleasant new melodies (Cabin on the Hill-tot), Let's Make A Wish, My Heart Wants to Dance...
After a half-hour melee twelve disheveled prisoners were herded to police station, held over night, paroled the next morning. An uninterested spectator was Fisticutter Schmeling who watched the brawling for a minute, shrugged his shoulders, departed for his cabin...
...sociologists made an exhaustive survey of tourist camps near Dallas, Tex., discovered that nearly 75% of the patrons were not tourists at all, but local couples who used the cabins few about an hour. Many proprietors admitted that "couple trade" was the foundation of their business. Some even admitted discouraging legitimate tourists because they stayed all night, brought less revenue than local lovers. In one camp, a series of "couples" rented one cabin 16 times in one night. In ten weeks, one camp was patronized by 254 "couples," 109 of whom came from Dallas. Only seven gave their right names...
...There McGuffeyites settled down to enjoy a pageant, a square dance, a barbecue, speeches. Said Ohio's onetime (1929-31) Governor Myers Cooper: "McGuffey, if living today, would be a conservative!" Said Fred L. Black, speechmaker for absent Henry Ford who collects rare Readers, restored the crumbling log-cabin McGuffey birthplace near Claysville, Pa.: "Abraham Lincoln, William Holmes McGuffey and Thomas Edison are the three Americans Henry Ford reveres most." Said Lieutenant Governor Harold G. Mosier: "Ohio's most useful citizen...