Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born in a log cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Bob Shuler worked his way through a Methodist college, preached in Virginia, Tennessee, Texas. Twelve years ago he went to Los Angeles Trinity Church, whose congregation numbered
...family. There is plenty of corn laid by for the mules and blackamoors, fattening hogs grunt in their pen, 25^ cotton has provided a fine pair of blue mules, clothes for everybody and $40 for Christmas. A high pile of tinder-dry stovewood is stacked near the cabin door...
Only one of Mammy's brood is no good. He is Solomon, who runs around with the white boys and wears store clothes. It is he who murders the white girl and brings the posse, hunting him with hounds, guns and hate, to the cabin. They catch Solomon, and while he agonizingly calls for his family which huddles inside the shack, the white men burn him to death with his mother's cherished stovewood...
Errett Cord's personal experience in aviation (he had a pilot's license) convinced him that here was a new factor for speed not to be ignored. He became convinced that one day cabin and transport planes would be as indispensable to the average man as automobiles. He set out to be a Mercury to the middle classes, to provide motion above the ground as well as on it for lower prices. In 1929 he acquired Stinson Aircraft Corp., again by an exchange of stock. This time, though, it was not Auburn stock he offered but the common of Cord...
...Woman from Monte Carlo (Warner), contrived as a vehicle for the U. S. debut of German Lil Dagover, is a jerky little melodrama of continental intrigue and the War. A lady married to a captain in the French navy finds herself aboard her husband's ship and in a cabin which belongs to one of his subordinates. Before her husband discovers her predicament, the ship is torpedoed and lost with all hands, except those essential to the foolish sequences with which the picture ends. In these, the lady's husband is court-martialed. His wife, by confessing her evening...