Word: ladened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beach, jotting down many a note of things seen & heard. Some of these ten short stories appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, but they would make good reading for the grimmest Communist. With few exceptions the people in Tropical Winter are vicious, hysterical, more than half-crazed by pleasure-laden lives. Since Deatfrdebunked Ivar Kreuger, no one supposes that matches are made in heaven, but bourgeois opinion still holds that Palm Beach and romance go hand in hand. Author Hergesheimer does a good best to prick this bubble. Some of the stories...
...drastically adapted Playwright Fauchois' Prenez Garde à la Peinture, shifted the scene from the suburbs of Paris to New England, turned Frenchmen into Yankees. The result is a zestful tale about avarice, abiding love and a painter whose reputation was made for him ten years after his poverty-laden death. An article in The Atlantic Monthly suddenly brings down a horde of critics, crafty art dealers and forgers about the ears of Dr. Haggett (Walter Connolly), in whose home the late great Chris Bean lived a little while and died. Where are the Bean pictures? There must be dozens...
...progress toward permanent recovery" When oil was booming, when wildcat wells were going down by the thousand, when the first great pipelines were still pencil marks on engineers' maps, when promoters were swearing that they would checkerboard the States of Texas and Oklahoma with their leases, when low-laden tankers from Trinidad, Tampico and Maracaibo could not bring the crude in fast enough, you never heard much about Sun Oil Co. If it was mentioned at the Tulsa Club, where engineers in khaki pants and tall boots fingered field maps with bankers in tailor-made clothes, people were inclined...
Between the Hudson and the Mississippi, the Potomac and the Great Lakes lies the richest rail realm of the U. S. Through its fat fields, between its teeming towns, over and around its coal-laden mountains criss-cross some 57,000 miles of trackage (one-fifth of the nation's total) valued at ten billion dollars (almost one-half the nation's total). Three hundred lines, long & short, in this area serve 52 million people, bind together eight of the ten largest U. S. cities, with shiny roadways to the sea and world markets. For generations this empire has been...
...phenomenal success with lobster potting, lead them to quixotic ventures with a salmon net that almost cost their lives. How the two brothers are benighted at sea, in mist and storm, how their broken gaff is found on the beach, their bodies hunted in vain until their coble, laden with salmon, breaks through the morning fog between the scaurs, is, with all the rest of their adventures, told with a simplicity and salt that has not lost its savor for having been used in older classics...