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...complex Crawford family left the hospital, freighted with baby formulas, feeding schedules and pediatric advice which they could scarcely follow in their one-room shack. Effie told the world at large: "We all's gonna name the baby Bert J. Moses Crawford. The Bert J. don't mean anything, but we don't want people calling him Moses...
...cooped up in the stockade at Little Stone Arabia, Lana's first child was born dead. She turned against her husband, lived in dread of the future, while he became embittered, sullen, tried to forget his lost aspirations by exhausting himself hunting in the woods. They rented a one-room shack in German Flats, became the hired hands of a kindly, harsh-voiced old widow, until Gilbert was called out with the militia for an attack on the British near Fort Stanwix. In the ambush at Oriskany Gilbert was wounded, lost some of his friends, but found when...
...town guests he spent the night riding subways. Once he got a portrait commission, but he had no studio to paint in. Nonetheless he and Anneliese Conrad, a pretty little German girl who painted too, decided to get married last September. They got a clean, one-room studio apartment on East 18th Street, sold a little work, saved their empty milk bottles to take back to the delicatessen. Last February Rob Godfrey went on re lief, was put to teaching WPA art classes. Last autumn Rob Godfrey painted a bright portrait of his wife looking attractive and intense...
...President Cunningham had not started to make some heroic adjustments in the affairs of his venerable company about ten years ago, he might have had no annual report to sign last week. Founded as a one-room store in Boston in the 1870's by the late Edward Burgess ("E. B.") Butler and his two brothers, the company was a mail-order wholesale house for nearly half a century. Indeed, the company claims it issued the first mail-order catalog in the U. S. As late as 1923 Butler Brothers was making more than $3,000,000 annually...
Serious-minded Vasya (David Morris) and easygoing Abram (Eric Dressier) inhabit a squalid, one-room municipal apartment borrowed from an uproarious poet who has gone to the farms to develop his muscles. Each unknown to the other, they marry-or "register"-on the same day, return with their wives. The congestion is further complicated by the return of the poet with huge biceps. He, however, heroically surrenders his hovel, expecting it to become a "collective Soviet paradise...