Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief distinction of My Life on the Frontier is its spectacular version of an old Western childhood. When Miguel Antonio Otero was a boy his father was a commission merchant, following the Kansas-Pacific Railroad as it was being built into Denver. He moved his business and family from wild...
Most remarkable feature of Crow society was its system of clans or families. Children of a family all took their mother's clan name, and the clan included those related by blood on the mother's side as well as others merely considered kin. A man could never...
Although Ethnologist Lowie writes for plain readers, avoids the technicalities of advanced ethnology, laymen are likely to find his conclusions too cautious, may be irritated by the qualifications and exceptions he notes to the general patterns of Crow behavior. That even primitive society was complex, dense, marked with restrictions and...
To reporters Merkl explained that he had been trained in Germany as a copper wire net maker, started making traps to catch rats and weasels that were killing his Ossining hens. The American Humane Association gave him a prize for the most humane animal trap and Merkl went into business...
Joan Crawford's big-boned, over-dieted frame, breezing in & out of clothes, has the appeal of cold turkey. Her laborious refinement and sincerity are expertly relieved by the acidities of Edna May Oliver. The plot: Robert Montgomery, non-marrying lady-killer, is talked into marrying Joan Crawford. Because...