Word: roading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Abie's Irish Rose ran for 2,532 performances. Tobacco Road is in its sixth year. Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst of Arizona has been running since March 27, 1912, which is easily the longest U. S. theatrical engagement on record...
...ROAD To EMPIRE - Fletcher Pratt -Doubleday, Doran...
...Road To Empire Historian Pratt, in his most coaxing mood, adds 346 more pages to the ten thousand books on Napoleon. This one retells the Corsican's career from corporal to coup d'état. Since the story of Napoleon Bonaparte is to history what Ulysses and Faust are to myth, pettifogging historians have had hard work making it dull reading. Sometimes Author Pratt labors harder than he needs to keep it lively. But when he lets the legend tell itself, adding only his "worm's-eye view" (sidelights from old memoirs, letters, newssheets), he rivets readers...
Three years of teaching school netted him $90, with which he started a weekly newspaper. When it folded, he sold books on the road for three more years, went to Kansas City, studied law, was admitted lo the bar. He quit the law because all the lawyers he saw were drunk and a newspaperman told him that if he wrote he would starve to death but, meantime, would always have a lot of fun. He founded a magazine called Plain Talk, which was suppressed for inciting race troubles. So he changed its name to The Pitchfork "because the pitchfork...
...Four speeds forward give it a top speed of 10 m.p.h., make it useful for road building...