Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orleans but wherever I went from then on I inquired of the people I met-literary ones, of course-what they thought of The No-Nation Girl. And I don't believe a book has aroused so much discussion in the South since Uncle Tom's Cabin. Some of the people approve it- particularly the women. But others violently disapprove it. One man, a professor in Louisiana State University, said: "I don't see how a southern man could write such a book." . . . Ada Jack Carver, winner of several Harper prizes in the past few years told...
...Last spring her acting as a gin-soaked derelict in Anna Christie with Greta Garbo brought her international fame in a few weeks. Abroad on a holiday, she was rescued by bobbies from admirers who mobbed her in London. When in Europe she lives in pensions; she travels third cabin, having found that most steamship companies, aware of her name on the register, will move her gratis to the first cabin. In return for this courtesy she entertains at ships' concerts. She collects the drums, hats, dolls given away as favors in Paris restaurants and when motoring stops...
Later, a posse of 300 Alabamans searched for Tom and his sons at the cabin of Tom's brother John. John fired on them, killed white Charles Marrs. The posse killed John, burned his cabin down. Two carloads of other Alabamans went by train to Emelle to help find Jacob, Tom and Oliver. On their hunt they shot dead in a small railway station at Narkeeta an unidentified Negro who refused to be searched and fired at them. They also shot and killed Mrs. Jessie Dill whose husband drove hastily past them after he had been told to halt...
...this time. Surely an intelligible radio bearing should come to guide them Major Charles Kingsford-Smith scowled at the grey fog outside his cockpit, cursed the compasses that pointed crazily to East and West. Beside him stolid Dutch Evert Van Dyk held the controls, stared straight ahead. In the cabin behind him Radioman John Stannage frantically worked key and dials. Navigator J. Patrick Saul searched in vain for a patch of sky that he might fix his sextant to a star. Now their latest radio bearing showed them 175 miles east of the Cape, when they had thought it only...
...correct screen despair. Then he protested wistfully: "Can't they accept me for what I am? Just a man, with these clothes and a few others?" That he will pass palatial, welcoming mansions for an hour with a friend years older than himself in a little redwood cabin near the foothills, clad as always in business clothes of American cut attests to the simplicity that asks little of the world, and offers much-a simplicity that, to Main Street, speaks in an unknown tongue. ETHELYN LESLIE HUSTON East Hollywood, Calif...