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...love and death and of all human affairs in this mote familiar land. . . ." For Cabell the land of Pictesme is his spirit's home. Neither the daily visits of his postman. Fearing fan mail from the outside world, nor the American flag that flaps before his summer writing-porch, in "that Viriginia summer resort which nowadays . . . is best known to my inattentiveness," can wean him from...
...seventies, the eighties, and the nineties, this "Gazette" was a power in the land. Then all America, save for wicked Manhattan, was one vast hinterland. Men gathered their families under mansard roofs; little girls in gingham and pigtails kicked their high shoes against the scrollwork of the porch. When the broad highway was muddy wagon track, men made no stir to journey afield. The village bar answered a man's thirst; and in the village barber-shop every voice had its part...
...grey little old Kansas farmer hobbled out on his porch one day last week to greet three men who were coming up to his house with guns in their hands. "Morning, boys," he said. "Going hunting...
...Mass., 16 summers ago, went over to Hutchins Hapgood's verandah and put on a couple of plays. Susan Glaspell was there; so were George Cram ("Jig") Cook, rebel John Reed, Mary Heaton Vorse. Robert Edmond Jones, a young man of talent and resource, fashioned scenery out of porch furniture, odds-&-ends. The Almighty supplied the backdrop, a tumbling ocean. Next year the play-acting fad persisted. Mary Vorse turned over a shack on her wharf to the enterprise and someone named Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, a lank, bushy-headed fellow with no money but "a trunkful...
...Monroe, Mich., Vincent Swiderski lost his parrot. Six years later he thought he saw his parrot on Mrs. Chermock's porch. Mrs. Chermock denied it was his. In court the parrot took the witness stand called by name the three children of Vincent Swiderski: Gladys, Leo, Joe. The Swiderskis got the parrot...