Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week had cause to review its official policy of not giving birth control advice to families on Relief. Seven years ago John Slattery, 64-year-old teamster, met a 17-year-old girl in the slums of Omaha. They went to Kansas, got married, moved into a tar-paper shack in Council Bluffs. There they produced three daughters, who were placed on arrival in the city orphanage. Month ago, Mrs. Slattery, robust but not brilliant, bore twin daughters. Her jobless husband, now 71, announced himself still fit for a day's work, claimed he was looking...
...Portland, Me.. James Morrill, 11, helped convict his mother of murder by telling how, after she had killed his father with an ax in their shack on Falmouth's Underwitted Road, she made her small son help trundle the body down to the cellar in his toy cart. "She asked me to help bury him," said James Morrill. "I threw on a few shovels of dirt, but I didn't feel like doing...
...land. But the civil war failed to change basically the Southern plantation system. In Georgia and Mississippi, approximately 70 out of every 100 farmers work somebody else's land as tenants or share croppers. The share cropper trades his services and those of his family for a shack and half the crop he makes, less 10? an acre ditch and road-maintenance fee, 10? on every dollar's worth of supplies bought at the plantation commissary (patronage obligatory) for "management fee," further deductions depending on the character of the landlord. It was estimated that the average cash income...
...although Semon Dye has seduced most of the women, consumed most of the corn, and taken most of the money in the immediate neighborhood of Clay Horey's shack, the people of Rocky Comfort are sorry to have the wandering Man of God hit the trail for the next town. He may have brought ruination with him, but he was at least a diversion. Most readers will not believe in any of the characters of Journeyman, but they may be impressed by Mr. Caldwell's violent energy, his satirical thrusts at orgiastic religion...
...gave no answers, put many a stumping question. No one was ever quite sure just what Veblen himself believed. Biographer Dorfman hazards no opinion, concludes that "the question as to the exact nature of his influence remains still to be answered." A week before his death, in a little shack in Palo Alto, he penciled a typical testament: "It is ... my wish . . . that my ashes be thrown loose into the sea, or into some sizable stream running to the sea; that no tombstone, slab, epitaph, effigy, tablet, inscription, or monument of any name or nature...