Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kirkland from Erskine Caldwell's novel; Anthony Brown, producer). Country squalor, never as bad as city squalor, lies over Robert Redington Sharpe's single stage set of a tenant farmer's shack, front yard and well in the Georgia tobacco country. Even the smell of hot dust, of unwashed bedding and dried food leavings seems to drift out over Manhattan audiences. In this unhurried shiftless atmosphere the events of Tobacco Road stretch themselves with lazy brutality. Compressing in time rather than exaggerating in degree the sordid materialism of lazy back-countrymen, it moved Manhattan reviewers to call...
...them on a rubbish heap. Someone tells King Charles II, a sentimentalist, that the bones must be those of the murdered "Little Princes." He orders all the princely bones which can be recovered put in an urn. The sealed urn goes to Westminster Abbey to be kept with the dust of other English royalty...
...raise such a dust we are out of sight; So Old Man Wolf will never get a bite of Two too tough old hens...
...culvert over the first irrigation ditch. Over a second, third and fourth, all graded as the ditch beds are above the valley here. Now to step on it. First mile gone, slow down for another grade culvert, the second mile nearly a straightaway. Indian wagon raising an infernal dust is soon past. A glance to the left at the sun setting over cotton fields and scattered palms, bare purple mountains in the distant background. She's doing 58. Cut the gas for the turn into the irrigation plant enclosure. No pump Diesels throbbing, so Doran will have the radio...
...panner, who has hitherto been obliged to sell at twenty dollars announce while in Canada and other countries gold was bringing a premium as high as eighty-five percent. The small gold miner, however, is still harassed by the old law forcing him to divulge the source of his dust; this law, originally designed to allow the government to plan detective for large mining companies, now serves to lay the prospector open to the mercies of the sharpers, government snoopers, gold buyers and claim jumpers. Yet in spite of this hindrance and the many others which arise, thousands are making...