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Jobless, penniless, Jimmie Rodgers yodeled his way around the North Carolina countryside, drank all the corn whiskey he could get, organized a little band of hillbillies to sing for food and drink in tumbledown Southern hotels. In 1927 he read that Victor Co. was operating a recording station in Bristol, Va. He bummed his way to Bristol, wandered into the Victor building...
...because he did not appreciate Punch. (He had served all through the War under his family name, Hueffer-his father was German-and changed it in 1919 for post-War reasons.) After a term of editing the English Review which he had founded in 1908, Ford retired to a tumbledown country cottage to live by writing and raising vegetables. He acquired a goat, a drake, a rook, a Blue Angora cat, and eventually two very large sows. In spite of his friendship with John Galsworthy and his admiration for George Moore, England finally became too depressing; he expatriated himself...
Sylvia Townsend Warner is a competent novelist, so when she turns her hand to verse you expect some salty characterization. She does not fail you. Old Rebecca Random, heroine of these heroic couplets, lived in a picturesque, tumbledown cottage in the English village of Love Green. The cottage attracted tourists' favorable attention; Rebecca might have sold it but always refused. Poor and usually wageless, she "lived on bread and lived for gin." When she discovered that her untidy flowers were worth money she grew them for all she was worth, tottered home with many a bottle from the village...
...Summerall last week stood up before the San Diego (Calif.) Chamber of Commerce and said: "The housing situation of the Army is a disgrace! Men are living in quarters at Camp Hearn like workers in a logging camp. The same condition prevails at other places. They are living in tumbledown shacks on the scale of the immigrant class. If you want an army to honor and carry on with dignity and the respect of the nation, it is time that the people of America waked up and did something. It is up to them...
...discarded stubs of cigars." The home will be "a place for those who cling miserably to vacant seats on park benches, who sit all day in branch libraries reading endless newspapers, and who, sometimes, when fortune favors them, get a chance to carry huge advertisements for cheap trousers or tumbledown restaurants on their backs...