Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BRIGHT SKIN?Julia Peterkin?Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). Asleep in the little shack along the Spanish-mossy river, little Blue is wakened by his father before dawn, told to come along, leave his mother and his home forever. Blue's mother has played the whore: Blue is the only child his father knows to be his own. Together they are going back to Blue's father's parents, Cun Fred...
...Solomon, who runs around with the white boys and wears store clothes. It is he who murders the white girl and brings the posse, hunting him with hounds, guns and hate, to the cabin. They catch Solomon, and while he agonizingly calls for his family which huddles inside the shack, the white men burn him to death with his mother's cherished stovewood...
...Nashua, N. H., E. C. Rae, New Canann, Conn., J. A. Redshaw, Munhall, Pa., E. H. Reed, Wellesley Hills, A. H. Rosenthal, Dorchester, J. J. Ryan, Jr., Jamaica Plain, A. G. Sanderson, Texarkana, Ark., N. Sano, Lynn., E. B. Schoenbach, New York City, W. H. Schofield, Chicago, Ill., J. Shack, Whitman, M. Shapiro, Cambridge, H. M. Shore, Jersey City, N. J., P. Shuebruk, Cohasset, J. P. Squire, Kingston, Jamaica, B. W. I., L. Srole, Chicago, Ill., D. M. Sullivan, Boston, A. E. Taylor, Pomona, Cal., A. J. Torrielli, Watertown, W. I. Tucker, Baltimore, Md., L. Urow, Lynn, R. K. Vietor...
...Danish postal clerk named Einar Holboell suggested selling seals to finance a children's hospital in Copenhagen. The late Danish immigrant Jacob Riis suggested U. S. adoption of the idea. At Wilmington, Del., Emily Perkins Bissell, Red Cross and social worker, wanted $300 for a tuberculosis shack on the Brandywine. She persuaded the Philadelphia North American to publicize a small seal sale. She realized $3,000. That was in 1907. The National Red Cross snapped up the idea. Until 1919 the Christmas Seals were called Red Cross Seals, bore that organization's bold Grecian red cross and signature...
...were George Cram ("Jig") Cook, rebel John Reed, Mary Heaton Vorse. Robert Edmond Jones, a young man of talent and resource, fashioned scenery out of porch furniture, odds-&-ends. The Almighty supplied the backdrop, a tumbling ocean. Next year the play-acting fad persisted. Mary Vorse turned over a shack on her wharf to the enterprise and someone named Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, a lank, bushy-headed fellow with no money but "a trunkful of plays," contributed to the second bill a one-acter called Bound East For Cardiff. Sick with stage fright, "Gene" O'Neill spoke...