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What keeps The Revenge for Love from sharing the same shelf as Darkness at Noon is not lack of skill. It is the moral lint from Lewis' erstwhile infatuation with Hitler. References to Australian aborigines as "Blackboys," Hindus as "Baboos," and the Jews martyred by Nazi Germany as "offending Jews," shows that while Wyndham Lewis was rocking the cradle of humanism with one hand, he was cradling a rock of bigotry in the other...
Dust Up. Daycon Products Inc. of Washington, D.C. began sales of Endust, a chemical that when sprayed on floor mops coagulates dust for house cleaners. It forms dust into small balls of lint which can be easily shaken off the mop on to a newspaper. Price...
...South's industrial revolution had begun-but in the ugly classical pattern that was set a century before in the textile mills of England. Cotton mills moved south to take advantage of hand-to-mouth labor conditions. The "lint-heads," as cotton-mill workers were called, huddled together in drab mill villages, chronically in debt to the company store. They worked a 55-to 60-hour week for around $15 (as compared with a 48-to 54-hour week in New England for about...
That cab driver is a valuable piece of property, Mr. Editor, hang on to him like serge to lint...
...spring of 1929 he was sent to the restless South. The "lint-heads" in the Tennessee and Carolina mills, ridden with pellagra, beaten down by the stretch-out, were showing signs of kicking over the belts and bobbins. Beal went to North Carolina, where he organized and directed the Gastonia strike (at the Manville-Jenckes Co.'s Loray Mill). One night there was violence, and Gastonia's Police Chief 0. F. Aderholt was killed...