Word: tenants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tobacco Road," the book, was the "Grapes of Wrath" of the Hoover era. Its coarse characters, crude action, and real-to-life plot made it a sociology text as well as a novel. It was a chunky, earthy portrayal of actual conditions on Georgia tenant farms by a writer whose pen had the realistic flair of Rembrandt's paintbrush. Adapted for the stage in 1933 "Tobacco Road" broke all records for longevity and attendance. Its dialogue was delivered not only with Georgia drawl but also with Georgia poor-white, obscene explicitness. The pathetic humor of the play prodded the social...
...ordinary variety of water pistol the choice of the youngsters. Any tenant lugging less than a brace of six-shot repeating pistols, walks in imminent peril of being swamped by a better armed adversary...
...years the South, in attempting to in dustrialize, pulled itself up by its own boot straps. Absentee land ownership and tenant farming perpetuated the ruinous one-crop system and discouraged the diversification of agriculture which the South needs to save its soil and feed its own people. Lack of industrialization denied its people a chance to learn industrial skills, and lack of trained workmen hampered industrialization...
There are racking vibrations from a subway excavation just underneath. Drunks leer and bellow in the window. The Greek landlord raves about his paintings that deface the wall. There are uncomfortable visits from the previous tenant, a harlot, and some of her clients. Further annoyances are a drug clerk who brings Eileen unappetizing "specials" from his counter and a reporter whose mind is not on the news. A Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech, waiting for the pro football season, is a tough protector to the girls but insists on lunging through their room in his underwear. Finally Ruth is followed...
Cases involving landlord and tenant are the most common, with divorce and separation running close seconds. Five cases of libel and slander, and two involving estates of incompetents were handled last year...