Word: creeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...GOODHUES OF SINKING CREEK- W. R. Burnett-Harper...
...hand of "commercializing " the Hemingway manner and hailed on the other as a story-teller who does not set himself up to be anything fancier, Author Burnett never goes behind the facts of what he has to tell, but his facts are telling. The Goodhues of Sinking Creek is only a long short story, but its rapid narrative covers as much ground as many a full-length novel...
Upton Sinclair has never broken himself of the colonizing habit. He went to Single Tax colonies at Fairhope, Ala. and Arden, Del. In 1909 it was "Physical Culture City" at Battle Creek, Mich., a health centre run by Bernarr Macfadden. At Battle Creek, discontented Meta Sinclair met Poet Harry Kemp, with whom she eloped two years later. And at Battle Creek, Upton Sinclair met his second wife, Mary Craig Kimbrough, daughter of a wealthy judge of Greenwood, Miss. When they were married in 1913, Judge Kimbrough, who had no more use for a Socialist than for a Republican, turned...
...gulch gold was found on the shores of Anvil Creek, a few miles from Cape Nome. Overnight a rip-roaring canvas-and-scantling town sprang up, sheltering, feeding and quenching the notable thirsts of 20,000 miners, gamblers, tradesmen and wenches. Among that gaudy citizenry were such characters as Klondike Kate, Alexander Pantages and Key Pittman, now U. S. Senator from Nevada. By 1900, there was no place like Nome for placer mining. Then, when the beach and tundra had been furrowed of its treasure, Nome languished as a commercial city. Today less than 1,500 people live there. Last...
...Storms pulled a $5 bill from his pocket, set fire to it. Then he went home, shot his three horses, set fire to his barn, tossed into the blaze life savings of $2,400 and the deed to his farm. Flames ignited his clothing, sent him dashing to a creek. Badly burned, he was dragged from the creek by a neighbor who started to drive him to a hospital. On the way they collided with a truck, wrecking the car. Next morning Farmer Storms died. Said Jennie Quackenbush: "Will Storms' death does not concern me in the least...