Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complex Crawford family left the hospital, freighted with baby formulas, feeding schedules and pediatric advice which they could scarcely follow in their one-room shack. Effie told the world at large: "We all's gonna name the baby Bert J. Moses Crawford. The Bert J. don't mean anything, but we don't want people calling him Moses...
...college, young Guthrie conducted the Riverside Community opera through 25 or 30 operas every year, did little studying, less sleeping. During vacations he worked on his father's newspaper, carrying copy, covering sports and police news. When an unknown man was found beaten to death in a shack, Police Reporter Guthrie discovered his name & address, discovered next the lunatic guilty of the crime, was made an honorary deputy sheriff of San Bernardino County...
...truculent citizens routed him out of his hotel room and, with pistols in his ribs, drove him to Bristol, Va. By 8 a. m. he had hired a car, started back to Elizabethton where he and the union committee, with their wives and children, settled down in a shack opposite the sheriff's office and lived there for three weeks, standing guard by turns with rifles...
...Reidy, Jr. '38; Edward H. Riddle '37; Lorimer Robey '38; Harvey A. Robinson '38; Theodore H. Rome '38; Phillip N. Ross '38; Sidney D. Ross '39; Robert H. Salk '38; Leon N. Satenstein '39; Leroy A. Schreiber '39; William F. Schreiter '38; Richard E. Schultes '37; Julius L. Shack '39; Joseph Share '37; Robert F. Sharp '37; Joseph A. Sherrard...
...desire to find jobs, improve their circumstances. Last week in Seattle, scrawny Ester Hilda Olson, 33, confessed that she had bashed in the head of her pretty, 16-year-old daughter Rose with an axe, cut her throat with a bread knife, buried her in a thicket near their shack. Explained Mother Olson: "I thought I was doing Rose a kindness by killing her. I was tired of living like an animal and raising her that way. I've been on relief, getting $10 a month, for a year and a half. What chance did Rose have...