Word: hut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arthur F. Willebrandt was superintendent of a high school in Buckley, Mich. Mabel Elizabeth Walker was a girl of 21, teaching lumberjacks' children in the Buckley primary school. She had gone to Michigan with her parents from Kansas, where she was born in a sod hut on the prairie...
...Rosens in September, 1917. Eddie Rosen (George Jessel) does not want to go to war because he does not want the burden of supporting his mother (Clara Langsner) to fall to his sister (Shirley Booth). He is drafted, sent to France. In a Y. M. C. A. hut he meets his onetime sweetheart (Lola Lane), learns she has married Eddie's onetime pal and fellow song-plugger (Raymond Guion), both of whom are singing and dancing for the delectation of the troops. From that point the story fizzles into a sequence of capture by the Germans when Eddie meets...
...Aujourd'hut et Demain...
Pepper, a seed, is picked from a 40-foot vine, growing up the trunk of a tree, or around a low hut. There are two seasons, two sources. From Telok Belong in Dutch East India are harvested each July between 10.000 and 24,000 tons of pepper seeds known as Lampong. Alleppy and Tellicherry pepper comes from India and is harvested in December. Before they are used for seasoning, the seeds are ground, packed in tin boxes, and given a label. But whether Lampong, Alleppy or Tellicherry vines bore it, whether bought in an exclusive delicatessen shop...
...business of Tibet has fallen into ruin. A pitiful hut is described, in official documents as "a snowy palace." . . . In the big villages there is not a single store. . . . "In twilight people come to you begging you to sell them something but they do not dare to trade openly. . . . It is dreadful to think that the name of Buddha is intermingled with all this dirt, physical and spiritual...