Word: northlands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made this analysis because he is a reader of Henry Louis ("Hatrack") Mencken's American Mercury and had read therein of two $500 prizes to be awarded for the best analysis of four years at college. The other prizewinner was Olive Brossow, this year's product of Northland College, Northland...
Drab, and more acidly Mercuric was Miss Brossow's paper: "Our family was . . . poor as Job's turkey . . . on a farm in what was then the backwoods in Central Wisconsin." To get enough money to go to college she did housework in Kenosha. "Arriving at Northland, I was sadly disappointed (in the buildings) . . . it is rather an honor to work one's own way than otherwise. . . . I have gotten everything out of college but a job. . . . I am financially embarrassed . . . I wonder, have I truly completed my college career 'with honor...
...Malbaie, the French-Canadians call it) became jammed with men & women; two slept in a bed and cots filled up the dinky corridors, just as though a notorious murderer were to be tried. Sleighs were requisitioned, as recklessly as planes. More men, more money, were poured into the northland. ... In New York, hawkers sold flags and buttons, carpenters started building grandstands...
...Company. A notable character in the play is a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who, although not speaking a word, is the centre of the plot and directs the course of the entire play. In the character of Secret W. Service, the anaemic poet of the northland, is offered an opportunity for rich satire upon literature dealing with the "great open spaces...
...love interest is supplied in the part of Charline, the daughter of MacGregor, the Scotch facteur of the Hudson Bay Company's post at Koyokuk. In the character of Secret W. Service, the anaemic poet of the northland, is offered an opportunity for rich satire upon literature dealing with the "great open spaces...