Word: jims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there appeared on the platform a large expansive gentleman. He moved about chatting with officials. He smiled blandly. To reporters' questions he replied that he would not commit himself to any of the views expressed by anyone present. He was, in fact, Senator Jim Watson of Indiana, Chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee...
...jobs) in the city room of The New York Morning Star. After the last copyreader has gone home, before dawn and the scrubwomen have come, he stays there alone, writing the story of his life. You quickly get the impression that the Long Emergency Man (his name is Jim Pickett) is rather a fine person, very gentle and whimsical, very hopeless, aging, wistful. The staff regards him as a mysterious but beloved failure...
...takes you back to his graduation from a college in Texas and forth upon the moonlit road he chose to follow into the world. Soon you meet the Chicken-Wagon Family, camped for the night by a pine-fringed Louisiana bayou, and thereafter their story and Jim Pickett...
Which they all did, by slow stages, Jim Pickett teaching grave little Addie her sums and reading and geography, placing with her, bathing in creeks, he being as much a part of the chicken-wagon family as Breaksteel or Kit and Luce, the mouse-colored mules. They all reached and drove down that old country road, Broadway, jamming traffic for fair as they hunted for a wagon yard, raged at by police-men until late in the rainy night, when kind Mr. Hibbard, a cop from Missouri, showed them into. a deserted fire-engine house...
...Fippanys could not have stayed there long if Jim Pickett had not paid down all his savings at the public auction. After that they lived there always. Mr. Fippany found some trucking to do. Jim got on the Transcript. Addie went to school. Mrs. Fippany took in, not boarders, but "remunerative guests...