Word: juanita
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reprieve until December. Philip Freneau's near Matawan, N. J. is for sale: $35,000 with his grave; $29,000 without it. Most rousing hospitality awaits the Pilgrim at Joaquin Miller's cabin, The Wigwam, outside Oakland, Calif. There the poet's ardent daughter, Juanita, has set up his room just as it used to be, quill pen, half-smoked cigar, demijohn and, in the old bed, under the same old patchwork quilt, a blackened bust of the old boy wearing his red, tasseled skull...
...JUANITA DA LOMBA JONES Ringgold...
...When Juanita had gone around the world as far as Hawaii she stopped. There, at Waikiki Beach, she bought a tent (she calls it "Villa Petit Peep") and settled down to live until necessity or wanderlust beckoned her further...
...Juanita loves good food, refers constantly to her fare: "No body can cook cabbage to beat the Irish of Cork not even the American Colored Southerners." Sometimes a new dish led her on a little too far. In Brno, Czechoslovakia "I ate too many dill pikles but the dancing got it down." She saw all the sights. In Madrid, it was bullfighting ("Bull fighting and ice cream are the two best things on earth"); in India, the Taj Mahal ("I would just like to put a glass over it I feel I must cover it over...
Readers of My Great Wide Beautiful World will admire not only Juanita's freedom from economic shackles but her impressionistic spelling, sometimes better than right. At Nice she watched people buying carnival costumes of "white Satan." At Antibes she lived in a villa built "by French Pheasants." Among the foreign colony: "There are plenty of scandlous durings going on here." She liked the "Smart and Strudy Swiss." In Belgrade a girl passed her carrying a succulent dish. Said Juanita: "where ever you goth I'll flower it smelled so good I flowered Her 2 blocks." When she writes...