Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make that house look like a miner's shack!" cried Henry Clay Frick who thereupon spent $5,000,000 on the house to which the public was admitted last week. Even strolling in Fifth Avenue's Easter Parade with timorous, kindly Mrs. Frick, Frick's mind was constantly working up ways of outshining Carnegie. Frick could not make after-dinner speeches, pat newsboys on the head, or write essays on the virtue of goodness, but he knew how to buy & sell and he had instinctive taste. He set out to form the greatest private art collection...
...easier, though, if we got more nourishing food. What we get is pretty poor." "I Spend My Money." Loaded with lingerie, perfume, champagne, vodka, cheese and sausages Hero of Labor Alexei Stakhanov was back from Moscow last week in his home on the Donbas Steppe, a four-room shack, the walls of which were decorated with poster pictures not of potent Dictator Stalin but of popular War Commissar "Klim" Voroshilov. Squeaked the Stakhanov family phonograph in English: "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf, Big Bad Wolf, Big Bad Wolf...
Perhaps any actress, seated in a Shack's kitchen and wearing a dirty silk kimono, can win an audience's attention by lamenting in a voice of deepest vulgarity the many servants in her family's old home, calling God to witness her misery now that she has "lost her voice and her French." Evelyn Varden in this play does it better than most actresses could. As Cecelia Jobes, she drills into her three daughters the idea that the sex act is an abomination, that they will best serve themselves and their mother by eschewing men. working...
...died in a shack...
...possessions. Weaklings could not endure this environment, were left to perish, apparently without regret. "Old Jules's" second wife. Henrietta, went out from Boston to marry him, drawn by artful letters written by Jules's sister. She was revolted by his crudeness, suffered in the miserable leaky shack. When Jules became involved in a feud and was accused of setting fire to a neighbor s grain, Henrietta sat up all night, once had a kerosene lamp shot out of her hand, eventually went crazy. Jules picked himself another bride, who ran away after two weeks. His fourth stayed...