Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eleven o'clock the Vagabond will hear Professor Howard Mumford Jones lecture on, in addition to D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and Aldous Huxley, James Joyce in Emerson...
...York and West Virginia Legislatures passed laws requiring three days' notice of intention to marry. To the conservative clergy's satisfaction, out of business went blatant, self-advertising ministers in West Virginia's "Gretna Green," Wellsburg. In Westchester County, handy to Manhattan, justices of peace found a profitable hasty-wedding trade cut off. Likewise in Maryland a two-day law disposed of a once-popular maritopolis, Elkton...
...Virginia, ministers were pleased by passage of a law banning "slogans" in liquor advertising, limiting illustrations therein to pictures of bottles...
...running thin at Poker Flat, Calif. in 1851 until a dance hall girl gave birth to a female child in the backroom of Gambler John Oakhurst's saloon, Mr. Oakhurst (Preston Foster) acting as midwife. Because a gold strike coincided with the birth, Oakhurst called the baby "Luck" (Virginia Weidler). His whim of allowing her, at 10, the status of a poker dealer in his place brought him into conflict with Poker Flat's better elements, Rev. Samuel Wood (Van Heflin) and Schoolteacher Helen (Jean Muir). John Oakhurst tried for Helen's sake to change his principles...
...from lake ports. From Duluth, Superior, Escanaba, they brought ore to the mills of Gary, South Chicago and Cleveland, to Ashtabula and Conneaut to be transshipped by rail to Pittsburgh, Youngstown, Bethlehem. Reloading at Toledo and Sandusky they returned, carrying coal from the bituminous fields of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, to the industries of Detroit, Milwaukee, Duluth and the Northwest. From Duluth and from the gigantic grain elevators of Fort William and Port Arthur, they carried Minnesota and Saskatchewan wheat to Buffalo and Montreal. At Alpena and Calcite, Mich., they loaded limestone for Chicago and Buffalo...