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Word: lumbering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LUMBER-Louis Colman-Little, Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Buzz-Saw | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

Jimmie's father was a Northwest lumberman, his mother a slut. When his father was killed Jimmie did not stay home long. He bummed around the lumber country, became a millman, had a good time, made good wages. When he met Pearl he meant to seduce her; instead he proposed. They were settled in their own house and had two children when the trouble began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Buzz-Saw | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...Doctrinaire Upton Sinclair could get as much feeling of helpless human tragedy into his propaganda novels as Louis Colman gets into Lumber, Socialists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Buzz-Saw | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

Capitalists alike would take more stock in Upton Sinclair. Lumber is not recognizably propaganda, but it is a story of Labor, and if you can read it without being moved, you deserve to have the Wobblies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Buzz-Saw | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...Author. Like his hero, Louis Colman has been a millman (he has hell down multifarious jobs in a lumbermill). Though never an I. W. W.. he has been out on many a lumber strike. Now, at 26, he has finished with sawmills, lives in Manhattan, translates from the French: Lumber is his first novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Buzz-Saw | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

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