Word: joe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farm, to tinker with machinery; labor in the fields and shops; to buy equipment; go forth into the world. Nothing is closer to the heart of Mr. Davis than Mooseheart. He has a home there, and is always on hand for the colony's jubilees. The late "Uncle Joe" Cannon once called him the "Napoleon of Fraternity."* 'He knows nothing of golf, calls it an old man's game. 3) He went into politics. First he ran for town clerk of Elwood, Ind. His opponents, finding that his schooling consisted of one year, said that...
...story. And something almost unprecedented took place. A cub reporter on a large metropolitan daily not only got his first effort into print, but the city editor put it on the front page under a "by-line." Seasoned reporters eventually get used to seeing their names over stories-"By Joe Suggs," "By Jake Zilch." But "By the Cub"-no one ever before saw that in a paper the size of the Daily News; NOT EVER...
...unless a circus, wet concrete or an ichthyosaurus may be called modern. St. Bonaventure's is as little concerned with the outside world as it is with the early lives of its members - now all disguised as Brother Benedict, Brother Cosmos and the like (no Brothers Pete, Mike, Joe or Henry). The village, where the author grew up, is of a similar unworldliness - perhaps a thought too Arcadian since the villagers oscillate between the modern vernacular and a strong resemblance to Hans the blacksmith, ; Schwartz the butcher and other such traditional creatures. But out of his acquaintance with real...
...story of Kate Green and her son Joe and all their relatives and neighbors in Westlake, New England, is another story of the tragically commonplace and, its eternal power of keeping on. Sister Anne is a little cheerier than Brother Dillwyn. She lets at least one character, life-loving Evelyn, young Joe's wife, escape back to New York and Paris whence she came. She even lets her have Hope, her daughter (the small hope of Westlake), and puts all the agony on Joe's shoulders, which broaden by bearing it alone. But Kate, from...
...others are: acidulous Aunt Sarah, 99, with parrot and enema bags; dependable, blockheaded Charlotte, who marries Hoagland Driggs; the fat little heir across the street; wan, wishful Carrie, Aunt Sarah's slave; and-flashes-sultry, vivid Opal Mendoza, "bad girl," the only one whose words comfort Joe at all; squat, square, red-faced Effa, "simply killing," a perpetual circus, whose salt tears run into her broad mouth when she smells the lilacs and knows she will never have a lover...