Word: faulkners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...WILD PALMS-William Faulkner -Random House...
...getting as far as taking down her dress before he remembers to send Tom away. This scene, equal parts Steinbeck and Pierre Louys, is followed by a touch from James Oliver Curwood when Pete kills a farmer in hand-to-hand fight. The story then swings quickly to mild Faulkner ; Tom loses Pete but finds Lucy, a wild little girl who runs away with him because "dad's got so he's queer with...
Called to the home of Louis Faulkner, in the tiny town of Idabel, Okla., last week, young Osteopath George Kenneth Fisher found Charles and Larrie, the four-month-old Faulkner twins, choking from whooping cough. Only oxygen administration could save them, but there were no oxygen tents within 50 miles...
With country-doctor resourcefulness, Osteopath Fisher gathered a tank of oxygen from the village welding shop, a quart fruit jar from Mrs. Faulkner's kitchen, four pieces of rubber tubing from Mr. Faulkner's garage. He filled the jar with sterile water, punched four holes in its cap and screwed it on. He ran one long tube from the oxygen tank through the cover and almost to the bottom of the jar. The other three tubes were stuck just far enough through to take the oxygen as it came off the water's surface. Function...
...sleep. First as a workman in the stained glass factory of famed Charles J. Connick; then on a Harvard fellowship in Italy, where he lived with a peasant family in Anticoli and the goat's milk stuck to his teeth; then employed by Muralists Victor White and Barry Faulkner to put vague decorations on expensive Manhattan walls, Maurice Grosser adjusted himself to his talents. The adjustment was fairly complete by 1929, when in an effort (successful) to stop smoking he went on a five-day binge and got. fired. He started painting for himself...