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...Selden, L. I. Chief Fire Ranger Clarence Dare insisted that a fire which raged last week over 6,000 acres of scrub oak and stunted pines, driving before it and suffocating, singeing, roasting a stampede of deer, foxes, rabbits, mice, had all started from a smudge ignited by one Ernest Chenel, 9, to smoke out a skunk...
Furze, meanwhile, marries a waitress whose full bosom heaves with eagerness to scrub the floors he walks on. She, Rose, shares his passion for the practical, his desire to toil and spin and then plough fields to get up a sweat. With her he is happy...
Stark Love depicts customs and manners of sequestered mountain folk, North Carolina. Director and Author Karl Brown got them to act their primitive lives before his camera. The natives use no makeup, register no artful emotions. Men sleep, hunt, fish, sleep. Women hoe, bear children, scrub dishes, chop wood, cook, clean, bear children. The men live longer. The mere projection of such crude civilization, the knowledge that it still persists among lineal descendants of American settlers is enough to make the film's substance fascinating...
...Blue puck men have been hampered by a scarcity of ice in their vicinity, and should present no very formidable opposition. Captain Luce at right wing will lead the Andover attack. Thus far he has proved the star in their two games in which they defeated a scrub team 4-1 and tied Melrose High with a 1-1 score. HARVARD 1930 ANDOVER Summers l.w. r.w. Luce Lakin r.w. l.w. Frost Harding c. c. Walker Stuart l.d. r.d. MacDougal Timball g. g. Warner
...title poem of her new volume is a narrative, in couplets of prodigious tune and cacophony, of a crow whose beak was shot away by an Indian arrow. So marvelously could he then sing that universal applause shook the marshlands. The scrub oaks roared, the cattails clicked, The bumblebees lay down and kicked. A council of crows sat to hear the amazing music and departed mystified, all but a nunlike raven, who found the beakless Caruso and adored...