Word: homestead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this time Chiang had become a world figure. But to 80% of the Chinese people -the peasants-he was still little known. Their attitude could be expressed in the bitter story of the farmer whose homestead had been overrun by both the Nationalists and the Communists. "Which side," he was asked, "is better...
...Palace's S.R.O. audience stormily approved every bit of it. Sighed Carlton Emmy, maestro of the dog act: "It was like coming back to the old homestead . . ." Veteran Pat Rooney, who started in vaudeville back in 1890, said: "When I saw that audience I got that old feeling. Sure, television will bring back vaudeville. Vaudeville's never died." But it had changed a lot. Said Gus Van: "Years ago, you used to sit for an hour in the theater and make yourself up. Now a fellow with nice soft hands comes along and does it for you." Ella...
...Ireland to Pennsylvania. Eight of the nine children died of consumptive diseases. But grandfather Henry lived to be almost 80-an ordained minister in the United Presbyterian Church, a doer and dreamer, a smoker of Pittsburgh stogies, a man of vast physical bulk, who quit the regular ministry to homestead, later to edit and write for the family's Wallaces' Farmer. He wrote a three-volume story of his life and a robust column, "Uncle Henry's Sabbath School Lesson," which was one of the biggest circulation builders in Midwest journalism. To grandfather Henry, who looked like...
Stevenson, a novice at campaigning, was completely at ease in Bloomington, where he spent his boyhood and where his family has long published the Daily Pantagraph. At a reception in the high-ceilinged Stevenson homestead on elm-lined East Washington Street, he bore up like a veteran through two dinning hours of handshaking, reminiscing with boyhood friends and chinning with local politicos (including many a curious Republican...
...John Shaw Billings (then National Affairs editor, now editorial director), the story told simply and very clearly how the news of his death came to the Senate, the House, President Hoover, and to Mrs. Aurora Pierce, "longtime Coolidge housekeeper" at Plymouth, Vt. She "heard a tap on the homestead window. Allen Brown, a neighbor, was outside. She raised the sash to hear him say: 'Calvin's dead, Aurora.' " TIME told how the stockmarket, shocked, had fallen and then "closed with a brief little rally -a farewell salute to the man whose name has been given...