Word: minerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distinguish between creativeness and photography. But the author has taken a cause, has attempted to find the Universal in a mining town. It may be there, but his efforts to prove "the torrent and ecstasy of life" are hopelessly inadequate. The love of John Donnelly, a raw Irish miner, for Zola, an alluring if somewhat incongruous prostitute, forms what plot and motivation there is. With a painstaking that is almost embarrassing. Mr. Brinig devotes himself to an exhaustive analysis of his characters, and finally they, under this pressure, disappear into a rarified atmosphere, incompatible with the gusto of his background...
...Omaha, Neb. last November, Mrs. Robert Tunberg got a balloon with her name and address on it as a favor at a dinner-party. She released it. Last week she said she had received a letter from Henry A. Prentice, miner, of Fairbanks, Alaska, who said...
...long odyssey of Miner Home is unusual because it has a perfect ending. On the shores of Grand Lake, Nova Scotia, near the town of Enfield where he was born 66 years ago, he has retired on his winnings, built for himself a big dwelling in the seclusion of the pines...
...Home started work in the mines of Nova Scotia when he was young. In 1898 he went to British Columbia and worked in the mills of the Slocan Star and the Athabaska, then got a good position in a mill at Ymir. But he had "miner's foot." He went to California. In 1907 he went to Labrador. For a while he ran the King Edward Mill at Cobalt, Ontario, then was off to the Porcupine District, then the Kirkland Lake District. In 1911 he went to the Rouyn District of Quebec and found some gold. Nine years later...
Died. Rt. Hon. Vernon Hartshorn, 58, Lord Privy Seal in the British Cabinet; of heart disease; in Maesteg, Wales. Once a coal miner, he had served in the House of Commons since 1918. In 1924 he became Postmaster General, last year succeeded Rt. Hon. James Henry Thomas as Lord Privy Seal...