Word: minerally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kenley Deer Lake Theatre on the outskirts of Pennsylvania's hard-coal district. Cast as "Princess Kalima," the hula dancer in The Barker (with silent cinema stars James Kirkwood and Lila Lee), the shapely stripper played her first legitimate role rather solemnly, moved many a simple miner with her earnest emoting. But more important than Miss Corio's acting was her success in combining drama with louse opera: she worked from conventional street dress in the first act to a G-string in the third...
...Crimson oarsmen will attempt to gain revenge for the defeat handed them by the Ithacans last year, when the chief vent of the Spring Day regatta on Cayuga was rowed in a miner hurricane, and many considered the final outcome not a just one although Cornell undoubtedly had a fine crew...
...they're all out-of-work miners working Almaden on their own time, faithfully sending, each man, a percentage of all he makes to the estate. Each pays a percentage to the silent man who owns the retorts, gives another percentage (50) to the cooker who retorts all the ore, keeps each man's cook separate, looks after it for him. . . . How gay they all are! . . . "We quit when we're tired or when we've made enough for that week," he said. There was an air of comradery, merriment, & rough heartiness that almost made...
...cinnabar & the four sacks which yielded a flask of "quick" were extremely unusual. Most of the men do well to make laborer's wages. Many do better occasionally. Sometimes they find such rich ore that to drill the highly volatile stuff is dangerous: the fumes. But again some miner will pick away for days in the all but airless devil's pocket & have hardly 50 pounds of rich ore to show...
Died. Emma Goldman, 70, famed anarchist; after long illness; in Toronto. Deported from the U. S. to Russia in 1919 with her lover and fellow radical, Alexander Berkman, she soon quit Russia, roamed the world, married a Welsh coal miner, briefly revisited...