Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost every one of them, with the exception of the late, wise Percy Hammond, had damned the play and said it had no chance. Last week Playwright Kirkland announced that he would give several of Tobacco Road's props-a wagon wheel, a tree branch, a well, a shack-to the Smithsonian Institution...
Next week he is going to leave his "shack" (broadcasting room), emplane at Kansas City and fly to New York City to get his prize. The ceremony will be broadcast for thousands of hams who learned to tell the difference between a kilowatt and kilocycle at one of Marshall Ensor's after-supper dot-and-dash parties...
Howard I. Grossman 1L, Minneapolis, Minn.; Philip Kazon 2L, Rutland, Vt; Klaus Braun 2L, Wiesbaden, Germany; Sidney Werlin 2L, Malden; James H. Wilson Jr. 1L, Tifton, Ga.; Lawrence F. Ebb 1L, Dorchester; and Julius L. Shack 2L, Mattapan...
...they are more like monsters-she a driving shrew, he a small, henpecked caricature of pathos. Eilley knows she is going to get rich, and when she is rich she enjoys it. But Sandy is miserable in his fine clothes and fine house, goes off to live in a shack. After Sandy dies of tuberculosis, Eilley loses both her mine and her mansion, ekes out a living taking fees as a "clairvoyant." But adversity alters her iron soul not a whit...
...pattern of surrender was familiar, too. Italians rushed around looking for captors (see p. 40). The British advance commander and the Italian admiral in command of the town met in a little shack. The admiral: "The town capitulates. All troops are disarming." The British brigadier: "Please delegate officers immediately to show us the position of every mine in the harbor and the town." About 25,000 men were captured, bringing the total since...