Word: nights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...retreating again at night, Bessie found himself running in the dark through a camp of Franco's troops. He was one of four, out of a detachment of 70, that got across the Ebro into relative safety. After that the men knew that the People's Army was being overpowered by German and Italian force, that they were the tail-end of the International volunteers. Scared Spanish boys came in as replacements, together with deserters and "goldbricks" once thought unfit for fighting. One soldier wept. "They killed all the good guys," he said. "I seen guys...
...NIGHT OF THE POOR - Frederic Prokosch- Harper...
...Night of the Poor is the answer to that question. Like The Asiatics its only plot is a record of travel, but this time the traveler is a 17-year-old boy bumming his way south from Wisconsin to his home in Texas. Tom starts out with his friend Pete, a mindless blond giant with curly hair on his chest who almost immediately mag netizes a colored farm girl, troubles Tom's flesh by getting as far as taking down her dress before he remembers to send Tom away. This scene, equal parts Steinbeck and Pierre Louys, is followed...
...readers accompany young Tom through the night when he sees a rape and a lynching, through barren Mississippi and Louisiana into Texas, they may feel that if The Asiatics and The Seven Who Fled could be accepted as truth in Oklahoma, Night of the Poor cannot be so accepted this side of Teheran. The language of Prokosch's Americans is a salty, sometimes melodious mimicry, but it rings false too often in such mixtures as "One can't be sure of nothin'. . . ." He speaks of "oil wells burning through the moth-hung night" in Texas, when...
Meanwhile upperclassmen huddled in groups to keep warm, and studied in their overcoats. Hot water bottles have been whipped into service, and there has been a run on all available firewood. Student circulation began to rise last night, however, when several radiators in Lowell House dehydrated to the tempo of loud clanks...