Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Starting without money in a two-room shack, the government of the new Republic ran deeper & deeper into debt, while the slaveholding South worked for its annexation to the U. S. and the industrial North stood firm against it. Bushels of almost worthless Texas scrip held by Northern speculators had much to do with the change of sentiment which brought the new State into the Union in 1845. Sixteen years later Sam Houston, no longer a hero, lost his Governorship because he opposed Secession. Texas gave its share of men & supplies to the Confederate cause but, though the last battle...
...their carefully packed boxes did not contain several handy necessities. They took no gun, very few matches, no lamps, no camera. They intended to do a lot of reading and contemplating, but found they had little time for such things. Clearing the ground, building their "house" (an open-sided shack), working in their garden, fighting mosquitoes, cockroaches, grasshoppers, ants, marauding wild boars, wild dogs left them few waking moments. ''The chronicle of those [first] weeks reads to me now like another Book of Job. One misery was hardly overcome before another, and a worse, arrived." But gradually, painfully...
...total of three years in hospital. With no job, money or prospects he married an English girl (niece of Bram Stoker, author of Dracula), brought her to the U. S. After eight unsuccessful months trying to sell Mack trucks, Farson and his bride went off to live in a shack on Vancouver Island, stayed there two years. Then he went back to Mack Truck Co., did so well he was made Chicago sales manager. No sooner had he made a resounding success than he chucked the job, went to Victor Lawson, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, told...
...this time Chaplin has made the acquaintance of a Gamin (Paulette Goddard). She has patched up a shack where both can live in airy disdain of the Hays organization. When Chaplin gets out of jail, the Gamin is dancing in a cabaret whose proprietor agrees to employ Chaplin as a singing waiter. There occurs a scene of tray juggling, followed by the Chaplin song, in gibberish. Juvenile court officials descend on the cabaret to arrest the Gamin. Escaping, she and Chaplin are last seen walking together up that desolate and endless road upon which so many of his films have...
George Robinson, Negro, drawled that if a man were sick he would have to hide from the sleeping shack "rouster" to avoid being forced back into the tunnel. As to economics he testified: "By the time we bought three meals a day and a pint of moonshine the $3 was gone. The men bought the moonshine to cut the cold and dust off their lungs...