Word: hut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nation, is told the story of a South African Negro girl who left her employment suddenly and departed to her kraal (hut). Her employer, a farmer, drove to the kraal, took the girl back to his farm and there flogged her. But this was not enough. He tied her up by the neck to a beam in a rat-infested barn. An hour later, the girl was found dead: the tips of her fingers had been gnawed off by the rats...
...French communists urged "Up and at 'em!" Upon the first appearance of a real, live Soviet ambassador, the streets of Paris rang with cries of "Vivent Ies soviets!" No wonder French Republicans repeat the Arab fable of the camel which, when granted leave to stick his head inside the hut to shield it from the cold, grew insolent and dispossessed the owner altogether...
Alloy. Through the fourth wall of a miserable millworker's hut in a steel town the audience is permitted to gaze at one of the most sordidly natural tragedies now open for inspection. It is a man-and-wife tragedy. The man is a drunkard and a beast. The woman is driven into the protecting arms of the family boarder. Vigorously written and vividly performed by Minna Gombell, the part of the girl carries the evening's interest. The saccharine platitudes and copybook virtue of the boarder (Ivan Miller), take the edge off the climax. If he were an individual...
...worked alternately at manual work, agriculture and designing in mining districts between Mexico and Alaska. He improved the process of washing gold. He spent one winter in a hut on an island in the Arctic to study a project for installing a hydro-electric plant. After many years of this practical mining, he founded a firm of engineers specializing in construction of shafts and mining plants. His four big mining ventures were successful; two in Colorado?"Tomboy" and "Smugglers Union"; and two in California?"Plymouth"and "Mountain...
...Story. This is the story of the education of Fremont McConkey, Hawkeye?how he and the State of Iowa grew up together. The bare-foot boy, born in a sod hut, who assimiliated a curious education from back numbers of The New York Weekly, The Lives of the Presidents and the Victorian poets, became a leading citizen?a prosperous, successful newspaper editor. The waste and beautiful prairies were civilized into the richest farming land in the world. In some six decades the people of that region had bridged the gulf between a life like that of the border ballads?...