Word: cottonfield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...descendant of Daniel Boone, a newspaperman who has worked in Honolulu, New York, the Dutch East Indies, Author Robertson called his family chronicle Travelers' Rest. When Northern firms turned it down he organized the Cottonfield Publishers with two friends, brought out the book at a cost equal to the price of "19 bales of eight-cent cotton." An honest, spotty book. Travelers' Rest traces the violent history of an old Southern family through their fights with nature, the neighbors, and each other, shows old pioneers with their buckskins off and their coonskin caps hanging from the wrong hatracks...
These noises, perpetrated at inopportune moments, cause Laurel and Hardy to be persecuted by their jailers and fellow prisoners. When they escape from prison and, wearing blackface, take to working in a cottonfield, Laurel's impolite articulations cause their disguises to be penetrated...
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