Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half-century since he moved from Ontario to a scrubby homestead near Alberta's Bon Accord, life for weather-lined Bill Mulligan, 62, had been hard-pressed. Old Bill and his wife Florence were a local Maw & Paw (The Egg and I) Kettle. They lived in an unpainted shack with their eleven kids. Through the hard winters they had to rip up the floor for firewood. The family's income fell so low that the boys would hire out to neighbors, then borrow the neighbors' farm machinery in lieu of wages to work their own land...
Then, last April, Alberta's great oil bonanza dumped a derrick on Bill Mulligan's 320 acres smack behind the tumbledown Mulligan shack. Unlike 99% of Alberta's farmers, Paw Mulligan held mineral rights to his land.* By last week his windfall had reached $40,000 or $50,000-he hadn't bothered to figure it out exactly. Besides, most of it had already been spent on a whale of a good time...
Undeterred, Jesuit Hogan answered: "I will not stop while there is reason to fight . . . What makes the situation critical here is that the worker still lives in a shack, eats an inadequate diet and is not prepared for any emergency. This is all wrong...
...station grease monkeys. This was still unusual, but almost anyone in the Northwest could ski or fish for salmon practically at his front door, build a lawn and admire magnificent mountains as he did so, raise his children decently, and with luck own a boat or a shack in the woods. In moments of contemplation he could fervently pity the unfortunate people "back east"-i.e., all who live between Butte, Mont, and the Atlantic...
Bolt the Door. In the Sinclair version, Heroine Pamela Andrews is a prim, pretty, barefoot goat-girl, a devout Seventh Day Adventist who lives with her mother in a tarpaper shack in the California desert. One day in the 19205 a plush black limousine breaks down slap outside the Andrews home, and its owner, an idle-rich sponsor of radical causes named Margaret Harries, stops off long enough to whisk proletarian Pamela off to the vast Harries home as parlormaid. Here, Pam promptly runs into the path of Mrs. Harries' pampered, drunken, lecherous nephew, Charles. Like her 18th Century...