Word: lifes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sponsored by the Counsellors of American civilization, the photographic exhibit now on display in the Straus Hall Common Room portrays the life of the contemporary American tenant farmer and sharecropper...
...died. He was buried in a Negro cemetery -"not from any natural preference for solitude," says his epitaph, "but finding other cemeteries limited by charter rules as to race, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life, equality of man before his Creator." (By all the evidence, Thad Stevens was an atheist...
...When Farmer X was a young fellow, a Yankee sawmill superintendent took a fancy to him, taught him to be a timber estimator. He bought a 200-acre farm, raised a family, slipped a little each year as the land got poorer. Now he philosophizes: "Life don't work like a job of work. You study out how to do a job and do it. But when it comes to living, they's not any way you can plan it and have it go according." He doesn't blame the Government though. "Our troubles," guesses Farmer...
...months ago W. T. Couch, regional director of the Federal Writers' Project, sent his best writers out to get the life stories of a typical cross section of Southern sharecroppers, landlords, millworkers and owners, relief workers, storekeepers, etc. No editorializing was allowed; stories were to be told mainly in the first person; the results were to be judged on "accuracy, human interest, social importance, literary excellence." Result: something new in sociological writing, a 421-page volume of 35 such true stories to be published May 20. Already exciting advance comment (Charles Beard: "As literature more powerful than anything...
...LIFE AND DEATH OF Louis XVI-Saul K. Padover - Appleton-Century...