Word: townes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...humour and wit of past Don Marquis stories are not lacking in his last novel, "Sons of the Puritans", concerning the life of a boy in the small-town atmosphere of Hazelton, Illinois. Still, the undercurrent which flows through the whole book is one of tragedy. For Marquis the tragic and comic are not conflicting elements, but intermingle to make up life itself...
...long since passed the peak of one of the most spectacular careers in the history of music. But the life of success that he looks back upon in the pastoral elegance of Riond Bosson was won with bitter years of discouragement and struggle. The son of a small-town Polish farm administrator, he felt as a child the knouts of Cossack riding whips, saw his father thrown into prison as a revolutionist against the Tsars. No infant prodigy, he worked until he was nearly 30 before attracting any public notice as a pianist. His early studies at the Warsaw Conservatory...
...Carter Shoe Co., which belonged to his cousins. According to legend, 52-year-old Shoeman Jarman, a Baptist deacon, felt unchristian making so much money and also found the Carters, though good folk, not devout enough. One day he went alone to Franklin, a tiny town 18 miles south of Nashville, rented a hotel room. All day long, Bible in hand, he communed with the Almighty. When he emerged he was convinced that it was God's will that he form his own shoe factory and run it along Christian lines...
Story of The Wedding is just the wedding. Jennie Middleton of Lexington on the Santee River is going to marry Dr. Gregg, a newcomer to the sleepy Southern town which is becoming an industrial centre without the old inhabitants knowing it. The time is 1909. The night before the ceremony they quarrel; Jennie says she won't marry a man who has sworn at her; mother, father and the doctor's friend act as peacemakers; the Confederate veterans assemble to take part in the ceremony; the minister refuses to have Confederate flags in the church; the groom begins...
...election to the Brookline School Committee with a bang, Paul Korins '41 plans to give a "fireside chat" over the air Friday or Saturday. He has already distributed 9,000 pamphlets, printed tire covers and window stickers, sent personal cards to Brookline friends, and plastered bill boards of he town with "Elect Kerins for School Committee...