Word: crittenden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mother's old picture album a rich lode to mine. Setting up his studio in nearby Memphis, Cloar painted My father was big as a tree, recording his boyhood image of his looming (200 Ibs., 6 ft. 1 in.) father, Charlie Cloar. Arrival of the Germans in Crittenden County, if they won the war they would be over here shows spiked-helmeted soldiers of the Kaiser's army wandering in greatcoats through a rolling Arkansas landscape. Garden of Love, all the little girls had brown eyes is Cloar's homage to all the small girls that...
...drinkingest community in all the wide, wonderful, boozy world-what profligate enchantments were not latent in the mere roll call of their names, perfumed with intimate association and Old Noble Treble Crown Whiskey! There were Pat Lynch's Place, The Old Magnolia, The Smokery. Gentry & Crittenden's, and the Howling Wilderness, a premises which never at any hour of the 24 betrayed the promise of commotional doings implicit in its name...
...material, Author Harris and her collaborator, Harriet Crittenden, spent ten weeks at Father's 32-room "Country Seat of the World'' near Philadelphia, interviewing Father Divine, Mother Divine and a cross section of the followers. The book is written with considerable sympathy for the followers, and notes the laudable by-products of Father's teachings, e.g., his "angels" are exceptionally law-abiding citizens. But the book was too much for Father...
...only one of the millions of American citizens who think that our country is really in a hell of a fix ... Talk about getting peace through the U.N. now sounds as unrealistic as the Crittenden Compromise* at the opening of the Civil War. Today we need a Churchill to call us to our battle stations with promises of nothing better than blood, sweat, toil and tears...