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...keeps Blood Knot from being a mawkish paean to poverty. John Dullaghan, who played Morris off-Broadway, mumbles like a flat-car hobo that he was forced to come back to Zachariah from his guilt at trying to pass. With a frog-legged squat and a patchquilt beard he nags and cajoles Zachariah not to leave...

Author: By Ruth N. Glushein, | Title: The Blood Knot | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...wondering what Santa Claus is going to do about the Adams House Chimney. If he descends to fill the stockings which the denizens of that patchquilt House hang at Christmas he may be blown back up the Chimney, sky high, bag, and all. A powerful fan is being built under the Adams hearth to make the flames in the unsuccessful fireplace go up, and make the smoke also obey gravity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 12/7/1933 | See Source »

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