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...from his rich, crude, stupid New York brother. The brother, accompanied by his warmhearted wife, immediately flies down, immediately flares up-the first of many times-for laughs. His wife expostulates with him, sighs over the boy and wants to take him home with her; she finds a nice widow for the father. The father ditches a blonde for the widow, but at the end he is still unattached, the boy still gallantly at his side...
Died. Helen Amelia Thompson ("Ma") Sunday. 88, widow of Bible-banging Evangelist Billy Sunday who besought the unsaved with him for 39 years, presided over the sawdust trail alone ("God is my business manager") after he died in 1935; of lung cancer; in Phoenix, Ariz. Ma Sunday's stern pronouncement: "The country is in a mess, and God knows about...
...make his own. and give his own reasons. The "rainbow bridge" (1 mile, 1.705 yds.) across the Tay estuary, with its curving, spidery iron girders, was the wonder of an age of railways and engineering. European princes and the Emperor of Brazil visited the marvel. Queen Victoria in her widow's weeds trundled safely across. The railway company that built it (between 1871 and 1877) said it was "a structure worthy of this enlightened age." General Ulysses S. Grant, who on a ceremonial visit was obliged to walk halfway across, said more soberly that it was "a very long...
...design for the girders, it seems, had just come to him in conversation. Holes in the castings had been plugged with "Beaumont Egg," a sort of crude metal paste. For once the public had found the right scapegoat. Bouch died soon afterwards, a ruined, bitter, ostracized man; his widow took to drink and married a sea captain. Authors Prebble and Kendrick both flatter the modern reader with their implicit assumption that this is a more enlightened age-but there is room for doubt. When Lisbon's walls came tumbling down, 18th century man sought a theological explanation. When...
...picking machine invented can cup and coax a tomato free like the human hand." Polk grows up in a seedy world of depressing boarding houses, trailer camps and sudden violence which gives the flashes of human love and devotion an original and affecting backdrop. By the time the Widow Odom tells him in Florida, "Boy, you're getting handsomer than the Devil in snakeskin shoes," Polk is reasonably immune to the surprises of life...