Word: cabined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years alternated storekeeping and prospecting. He made his big strike at Leadville when he was 47; within a year he was a millionaire. To help celebrate his new affluence, he gave Denver a magnificent Opera House with his name engraved on a two-foot block of silver. Librettist John (Cabin in the Sky) Latouche picks up the story from there. Tabor became the richest man in Colorado, and this attracted 20-year-old Baby Doe, who blew into Leadville in 1881, established herself as Tabor's mistress and persuaded him to divorce his wife. As an interim Senator...
Here is a book on the Negro in America with a startling thesis. Author J. C. Furnas (-And Sudden Death, Anatomy of Paradise) argues that all U.S. thinking about the Negro for the past century has been shaped directly or indirectly by one book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the play fashioned from it-to the Negroes' detriment...
...profit annually. A representative weekly food ration for a slave was "a peck of meal, three pounds of bacon, and a pint of molasses." The housing rule of thumb on the plantations was six Negroes to one room, usually 16 ft. by 18 ft. in size, but the log cabin Lincoln grew up in was meaner than some slave quarters...
...hour shipment on the railroad to the North. There was a real-life model for Eliza who fled across Ohio River ice, but with no bloodhounds in pursuit. In fact, the bloodhounds are a bit of stage business thought up by the play adapter of Uncle Tom's Cabin and do not exist in Mrs. Stowe's novel...
...blood groups. Well-meant though all of this undoubtedly is, it smacks of an overly reasoned-out love-thy-neighbor-BECAUSE philosophy rather than a simple love-thy-neighbor. It even makes Harriet Beecher Stowe's righteous indignation on the closing page of Uncle Tom's Cabin sound refreshingly wholesome and not a bit out of date...