Word: kinfolks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he was home from England on a furlough last year, slight, dark-haired Private Clarence V. Bertucci relaxed with his family on Dryades Street in New Orleans. But when he left he mystified his kinfolk with a legend he penciled on the doorsill: "Live & let live...
...Taylor (Tessa Brind), the gentle, neglected child next door. Both get into bad company (Bonita Granville and some able supporters). Both "have ugly moments with their parents and at a drinking joint, and in an attempt at larceny, both are redeemed through a mellow juvenile-court judge and through kinfolk who, on a modest scale, set up every delinquency-preventive, from a kindergarten to machinist's training...
...afford, and the huge chandelier in the center hall twinkling with a starry brilliance as it was lighted in her honor, she trembled at their pride in her. When she found the Negroes welcoming the bride and groom with incomprehensible outcries of good nature, and her husabcand's kinfolk, wistful and old, treasuring her as if she were some lovely, fragile, enameled doll, she moved into a world of enchantment. When she dreamed with Niles in the warm, sweet air, savoring the dense, multitudinous murmur of night, watching the mansion, she knew that like her husband she would never...
Revealing how the descendants of pioneer California farmers have become effete, hence impoverished, hence embittered, Hope for a Harvest uses a vigorous, high-spirited woman (Florence Eldridge) who returns home, after 20 years in Europe, to whip her tired kinfolk into action. She succeeds immoderately: not only does her favorite cousin Elliott (well played by Actor March) regain his faith and flex his muscles, but his daughter slides out of a mess with the wrong man into marriage with the right one, and a neighborhood feud blossoms into a very pretty friendship...
...owns three apartment houses in Chicago, blue-ribbon saddle horses, a 477-acre farm 20 miles outside Detroit. Joe has bought himself an annuity which should bring him $11,000 a year, starting in 1944. He has put his baby sister Veunice through Howard University, supports 27 assorted kinfolk in Detroit alone. The good Lord has also seen to it that Joe's head be sculptured for posterity, like that of Booker T. Washington and other Negro idols...