Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ulysses-Black Oxen-Jurgen mania, Francis Brett Young's latest book draws forth a sigh of relief. In "Pilgrim's Rest" there is realism to be sure, but it deals with the loneliness of the African jungle, and the ups and downs of life in an African gold-mine town. Like its contemporaries got it is outspoken, and yet it leaves one with the comforting feeling that perhaps the present-day light novel has not completely fallen into the hands of a corporation of psycho-sexualists...
...plot is perfectly adequate, and turns on the repeated attempts of a man to get started on a lone expedition to the heart of Africa after gold. He gets the key to the gold-mine, and incidentally to the address of the heroine, from the money-belt of a dead Englishman whom he runs across in the jungle. First he gambles away his money, then gets blown up and severely injured in a mine in Johannesburg, and finally falls in love and gets married...
Where the true merit of the book lies is in a remarkably vivid picture of mine life, and labor-union complications. The hero of the story refuses to join the union with the result that all the men in the mine turn on him to break him. We often enough hear from capital of the great power of labor, and from labor the opposite story, but in this instance we see a conflict between the man who takes pride in his work, and the men who want to get by, both representing labor. The description of the finale, the uprising...
...work on Sunday. The actors have the most powerful labor union (the Actors' Equity Association) with which I ever came in contact.'" S. S. Kresge: "I applied for $5,000,000 life insurance and am asking that the commission of $150,000 go to a friend of mine. The only other $5,000,000 policy in this country is carried by Adolph Zukor, cinema potentate." President Harding: "I received three brand new straw hats from the National Association of Men's Straw Hat Manufacturers of America-a rough Sennit straw for daytime wear, a leghorn for motoring...
...conserve, as far as I possibly can, those principles and policies of the fathers which for so many years have made our country the freest and the happiest, the most prosperous and the most powerful nation upon the face of the earth. "There is, however, one firm principle of mine which may be regarded by some as radical, but which to my mind is merely a matter of professional journalistic ethics-of common journalistic honesty. "That principle is the right of the public to a square deal on all occasions -to a fair show for its 'white alley...