Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alaska is "perhaps the last country in the world where a hermit can build a cabin and never see a tax collector...
...warm spring day in 1820 a tall, towheaded, 14-year-old farm boy named Joseph Smith stumbled into his parents' log cabin at Palmyra, N. Y., looking as though he had seen a ghost. He had just talked with God in an oak grove. "And it came to pass," reported ragged Joe, "that the Son spake unto me, saying, 'verily, verily, I say unto you, my servant Joseph, that a new church will be established in these latter days and you will be my prophet...
...dissipate the blue funk into which collectivization had thrown the peasantry, each farm worker was granted his own small private piece of land on which he might raise a few cows, pigs, fruit, vegetables. The decree provided that the garden plots must adjoin the owner's cabin. Because in many villages houses are crowded close together, this stipulation could not always be followed, and the private plots in many cases were well away from the village, scattered around the collective fields. The peasants have worked like demons on their tiny pieces of private property, and now this small fraction...
...Travancore, she motored 200 miles through the jungle, escorted part way by elephantcade. She was entertained by the Maharaja of Gwalior, received at New Delhi by Lord Irwin, the Viceroy of India (now British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax). One Prince gave her two live tigers for her father. Her cabin on the return voyage was loaded with rare laces, a miniature temple carved in ivory, rugs, tapestries, gold & silver trinkets...
From Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Grapes of Wrath, novels whose characters make social problems look alive have been surefire bestsellers. Right down this fictional alley marches stoop-shouldered old Isaac Emmanuel, drawn to shed much heat and some light on Nazi methods, Jewish refugees...